Britain simply cannot afford to swallow the 100,000 illegal migrants that crossed the Channel since 2018
Out of control
ANYONE suggesting that illegal migration is a minor problem only has to look at the grim milestone passed yesterday.
More than 100,000 have crossed the Channel since 2018.
And that’s only the ones picked up by Border Force.
The numbers who have slipped through undetected could be tens of thousands more.
That’s a town the size of Rochdale or Bath in just five years.
Add this number to the enormous spike in legal net migration and it’s easy to see why our public services are at breaking point.
The Left argue naively that every asylum-seeker is at risk of persecution and should be allowed in.
Where does this argument end?
A total amnesty for anyone from abroad who fancies a new life in the UK?
Britain simply cannot afford to swallow such numbers.
Fuel scrutiny
IT’S not just politicians who see drivers as cash cows.
Petrol station bosses have been milking motorists by keeping forecourt prices high.
In a further victory for The Sun’s PumpWatch campaign today, the competition watchdog has told fuel bosses to start publishing prices nationwide.
Having a national register will give the industry the kind of scrutiny it’s been missing in recent years.
The fuel companies who have had it so good for so long must now get on and publish.
And in the meantime we’ll keep standing up for drivers.
Living in fear
WITH depressing inevitability republican terrorists yesterday gleefully claimed they were in possession of some of the details of 10,000.
Northern Ireland police officers and staff that was leaked in a data bungle.
It’s not known how genuine that claim is but it will be the worst fear of the security services.
Not least because MI5 staff are also believed to have been at risk of exposure.
It seems likely the person behind this catastrophic error will lose their job.
But that won’t help the vulnerable officers and their families now having to live in fear of an attack.
Loans lifeline
GOOD news often feels in short supply — especially if you’re the Prime Minister.
But signs that mortgage lending rates may have peaked is a genuine boost.
Fears of seven per cent deals this year appear to have evaporated.
And Halifax joining other major lenders in cutting rates shows banks believe the worst of the inflation crisis may have passed.
It’s a glimmer of relief for families and provides some hope to the PM, too.