The UK has lost control of its borders, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said, as she calls for “international cooperation” in a tacit admission that Britain has surrendered its sovereignty to foreign courts and treaties. The Telegraph has more.
Shabana Mahmood will say on Wednesday that Britain’s failure to control its borders is eroding trust in politicians and the credibility of the state.
At a summit with Balkan interior ministers in London, the Home Secretary will issue one of the frankest assessments yet of the risks the Government is running if it fails to get a grip on the migration crisis.
She will say that only through international co-operation can countries secure their borders.
In 2024 alone, almost 22,000 people were smuggled along routes through the Western Balkans, while 35,500 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats this year, up 30% on last year.
Her forthright approach comes as Labour seeks harder-edged policies restricting rights for migrants in an attempt to reverse Reform’s surge in popularity.
“The public rightly expect that their Government will be able to determine who enters their country and who must leave,” she will say.
“Today, in this country, and I know in many if not all of yours, that is not the case. And the failure to bring order to our borders is eroding trust not just in us as political leaders… but in the credibility of the state itself.”
In an implicit critique of Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, she will say that illegal migration requires a “strong, joined-up international response”, which she has previously warned could be undermined by Tory and Reform plans to quit the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
“To those who think the answer to the challenges that we face is to turn inwards, or back away from international co-operation, I say that in coming together as we are today, we will make all of our borders and our countries stronger,” she will say.
“I am proud that the UK is leading the charge on a co-ordinated response to tackle organised crime and take down the vile people-smuggling gangs who put the value of human lives behind their own profits.”
Home Office sources cited examples including Labour’s one in, one out deal with France, a bilateral agreement with Germany to prosecute smugglers and seize their boats, an EU reset giving the UK access to key intelligence, and a border security pact with Iraq.
But Mr Farage hit back, saying: “These words are meaningless while the pull factors to the UK remain.” …
Chris Philp, the Shadow Home Secretary, branded Ms Mahmood’s words “rich coming from a Government that has lost control of our borders”.
He said: “The first nine months of this year have been the worst in history for illegal immigrants crossing the Channel.
“The Government is accommodating more illegal immigrants in hotels than at the election, and has only returned a paltry 26 to France over a time period when 14,000 have arrived. This is clearly no deterrent.
“The Conservatives would leave the ECHR, which will enable us to remove all illegal immigrants within a week of arrival. Then the crossings would soon stop.”
Worth reading in full.
One commenter under the Telegraph article notes:
We have a Home Secretary who [in 2020] signed a letter opposing the deportation of foreign criminals including child rapists, a Foreign Secretary who posed for a photo waving a far Left ”[Refugees] Welcome’ placard and a Prime Minister who was a human rights lawyer who fought for the right of foreign criminals to remain in the UK.
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