The odds of Starmer’s migrant returns deal with France actually working are vanishingly small

Published on July 10, 2025 at 09:58 PM

PM’s bad bet

WHAT are the odds on Keir Starmer’s returns deal with France actually working?

Vanishingly small.

Migrants in a dinghy in the water.
As many as 600 migrants arrived in one day — three months’ worth of returns

At current rates, just six per cent of the 44,000 illegal migrants who have crossed since Labour took power — about 50 a week — would be sent back.

In gambling terms, anyone lumping £3,000 on being smuggled to Britain would have a near 20-1 ON chance of success.

That’s overwhelmingly worth the punt.

Yesterday as many as 600 migrants arrived — three months’ worth of returns — as the Prime Minister and

In a huge error, Labour had promised no more “gimmicks”; as it scrapped the Rwanda scheme — our only viable deterrent.

Yet this pilot with will prove to be nothing more than a stunt if it is torpedoed before it starts by other EU leaders, who fear migrants ending up in their countries instead.

Europhile Sir Keir thinks he has a helpful pal in Macron, who couldn’t resist having yet another foot-stamping sulk about so-called “lies”;.

As this agreement will prove, nothing could be further from the truth.

Enemy within

ANYONE doubting strikes to take out the nuclear threat posed by should read the report into Tehran’s terrorist operation in Britain.

Shockingly, the Islamist regime ordered attempts to murder prominent British Jews on our streets.

Security chiefs now believe Iran to be more dangerously unpredictable than or .

Hand-wringing Left-wing MPs should also note these threats unfolded well BEFORE either Israel’s war on Hamas or Trump hitting Iran’s nukes.

Most plots were orchestrated by UK agents of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

So when will the Government make a move to ban it?

Sick disgrace

KEMI Badenoch’s reality check on Britain’s unsustainable bill is one Labour MPs are so desperate to avoid.

It may well be that the party lost control post-Covid.

But she is right to point out that it’s an economic and moral failure to shirk proper reform and allow 6.4 million to claim out of work benefits.

A collapse in face-to-face assessments means mental health claims are waved through without any serious checks.

As a result the vast majority of go to people with conditions like anxiety rather than physical disabilities.

Robbing taxpayers who work to fund this benefits madness is becoming a national scandal.

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