Guy Dampier delivered a harsh critique of Sir Keir Starmer during his appearance on GB News on Monday, as the Spectator author revealed he supports Reform UK’s plan to abolish the Human Rights Act in an effort to reduce illegal migrants entering the UK on small boats. Reform leader Nigel Farage has consistently maintained he would revoke the bill, which was first introduced in 1998, to facilitate the mass deportation of illegal migrants who have increased in number since Labour came into power last year.

Dampier argued that Labour’s delay in controlling UK borders is allowing “millions” to gain ILR and UK citizenship, as the Prime Minister faces growing pressure to accelerate removals of those here without a visa. The journalist shared the current state of the UK is a “ticking time bomb” and we are watching a “slow-motion immigration car crash”.

Dampier said of Reform’s strategy to reduce illegal migration: “I think it is feasible. Although not feasible under the current rules, Reform has been quite clear. They held a major press conference for Operation Restoring Justice, announcing plans to remove people by addressing the root causes.

“The problem is the law, particularly Human Rights Law, which makes it incredibly difficult to remove people. By taking those decisions outside of the law, which isn’t completely abnormal, this is how the Home Office worked until around the 1970s, when the modern appeals system came in.

You can say, ‘You have no right to be in the country. You’re not going through a court because you don’t have that right, and we are simply going to remove you. You’ve got two choices: you can either go voluntarily, with a small sum of money to help you, which is the cheapest and easiest option, or if you won’t go, we’ll do it involuntarily and send you overseas’.”

It comes as a recent poll has suggested that voters believe the prime minister is failing to grip the problem, despite his government setting out measures to speed up deportations, as so far this year, a record 28,076 people have made the journey across the English Channel in small boats, 46% more than in the same period in 2024.

Over on X, GB News commentator Adam Brooks continued to share his outrage at Starmer, as he branded the PM “the most sinister” of our times in a scathing rant, typing: “Keir Starmer will go down as the most destructive, most sinister, and the most inept Prime Minister of modern times.

“I am utterly disgusted,” he added after Starmer announced the UK would recognise Palestine as a state, in a move that has left some outraged.