GB News was interrupted by a breaking alert on the migrant crisis, which is quickly becoming a huge “mess” for Prime Minister Keir Starmer
. The migrant crisis continues to worsen, with presenters Tom Harwood and Dawn Neesom revealing that a further 220 people crossed the Channel on Wednesday (October 22). This brings the total number of arrivals in 2025 to almost 37,000 – a major setback for the prime minister, who pledged to “smash the gangs”.
Joining the presenters in the studio, GB News’ Home and Security Editor Mark White said that the government is already facing “great embarrassment” after a migrant returned to the UK by small boat, despite having been sent back to France under the one-in, one-out scheme. Highlighting Sir Keir’s struggles to get a grip on the situation, White said: “The fact is, this government simply doesn’t have a solution to the small boat crisis in any meaningful way. It’s got lots of little incremental changes that they hope might bring the numbers down. But really, when it comes to any big, set-piece policy, they don’t have anything.
GB News was interrupted for a breaking update on the migrant crisis (Image: GB News)
“It was, when the government first started, ‘smash the gangs.’ This is what we heard from Sir Keir and all of his ministers repeatedly.
“When they realised what most of us who’ve been monitoring this crisis for years already knew – that law enforcement were always going after the criminal gangs – just saying you’re going after them and smashing them is not going to make any difference.”
He continued: “Now that that’s dawned on them, we hear very little about ‘smashing the gangs.’ It’s all about the international partnerships with the likes of France.
“But even that is just a pathetically small number of migrants who are being returned to France. It doesn’t look, whatever the government says, like it’s going to ramp up to anything very significant.”
Keir Starmer was humiliated once again (Image: Getty)
Harwood didn’t hold back, admitting: “It’s a mess, isn’t it?”
He criticised the government’s contradictory statements about migrants entering the UK, contrasting them with how arrivals are actually treated once they get here.
The presenter quipped: “‘Welcome to the United Kingdom. Here’s your hotel. Here’s your discount spa entry and your discount e-bike’ and everything else that these councils give these illegal migrants.”
He raged: “At what point do we start to think that what matters here is not what the government says but what the government does?”
