Keir Starmer was slammed on the GB News panel as the programme issued an urgent update about illegal migrants entering the UK
Keir Starmer was delivered a crushing blow as GB News aired a “breaking” announcement on migrants. The programme was interrupted to share the government’s new plan to crack down on social media content which promotes small boat crossings. New laws will make it a crime to advertise transport across the Channel in a small boat, with offenders risking up to five years in prison. While some believe it is a step in the right direction, GB News presenter Ben Leo took aim at the Prime Minister.
He raged: “The issue with this story is, we are going to be jailing these people in the UK as if we have so many free prison spaces anyway. We are literally letting paedophiles and child abusers walk free from sentencing because there’s no space.” American broadcaster Lewis Schaffer blasted the government for not taking responsibility, remarking: “They say people have been forced to come because there’s some trafficker who’s been offered money and if we get rid of the trafficker then no one will want to come to the country. It’s a huge plot to bring people to the country.”
Former Labour special adviser Paul Richards defended the plans, telling the presenter he “can’t have it both ways”.
He continued: “Week after week you’re saying we need to do more to crack down so Yvette Cooper comes out with something which is cracking down and putting these people where they belong, behind bars. I think it’s a good idea. It’s another step forward in breaking this business model.”
Leo fumed: “Let me clear, I don’t want these people in the country in the first place, let alone in our prisons.”
Richards hit back: “Good, well lock up the people who are trying to get them here.”
Believing no one will actually serve jail time, Schaffer claimed: “It doesn’t matter because it’s just a small number of people you’re pinning the blame on.”
The GB News panel slammed Keir Starmer after the government announced new plans to tackle migrant crossings (Image: Getty)
But it was Peter Bleksley who delivered a humiliating blow to the Prime Minister, declaring: “It’s a very clear sign that when it comes to ‘smashing the gangs’, which your almighty leader promised us, they’re making it up as they go along.”
He claimed the government saw an advertisement of illegal crossings and decided to create a law to lock those people up.
Bleksley continued: “It shows they’re doing it on the hoof. They haven’t really strategised this. They don’t have an actual solution to stop people coming into the country,” later declaring: “We all see through it, Paul.”
Agreeing with police and crime expert, Schaffer said: “It’s so fraudulent. That’s the problem with the government, they’re all fraudulent. Just put a boat between here and France.”
