The sharp turn right that leftist British PM Keir Starmer is taking on his immigration policies may be surprising many, but here in TGP we have reported how, on September 2024, mere 3 months into his premiership, Starmer was already moving in this direction: British Premier Starmer Goes to Italy To Learn From PM Meloni How To Stop Migrant Boats From Reaching European Shores.
His new immigration policies include extending the residency requirement for citizenship from five to ten years, demanding stricter English language proficiency for all visa applicants, banning overseas recruitment of care workers, tightening visa rules, expanding Home Office powers to revoke visas and deport individuals for a broader range of crimes… the list goes on.
Now, he went for the most un-liberal policy of all: developing ‘return hubs’ for failed asylum seekers as a response to the growing migration nightmare.
Yes, you read it right – just like the Tory ‘Rwanda’ plans that he scrapped.
GB News reported:
“The Prime Minister outlined how these hubs would help process individuals who have exhausted all appeals in the UK system and need to be returned to their countries of origin.
The announcement comes after his Government scrapped the Rwanda scheme that the Tory government failed to enforce.”
Starmer is reportedly in Albania – who partnered with Italy’s Giorgia Meloni for the same ‘return hubs’ plans – to learn to tackle what Starmer described as a ‘vile trade’ of human traffickers in the English Channel.
“The Prime Minister explained: ‘Now what we want to do, and are having discussions and talks of, is return hubs. These would be used when someone has been through the system in the UK and needs to be returned’.
‘We have to make sure those returns are carried out effectively, and we’ll do that, if possible, through return hubs. That’s what the talks are focused on. I would say that in this area, no single measure is going to be, if you like, a silver bullet. It will allow us to bear down on this vile trade and help stop people from crossing the Channel’.”
The pressure is on Starmer since data shows more than 12,000 people have crossed the Channel in small boats since the start of the year, and after anti-immigration Reform UK humiliated both Labour and Tories in the local elections.
In a rapid succession of events, while we were putting this report together it arose that Starmer has been ‘snubbed’ by Albania, because reelected prime minister Edi Rama has ruled out allowing Britain to send ‘failed asylum seekers’ to camps – or ‘hubs’ – in his country.
The Telegraph reported:
“On his first visit to Albania, the Prime Minister announced that the UK would begin talks with other countries to host ‘return hubs’ where failed asylum seekers could be sent once they had exhausted all avenues of appeal.
The announcement prompted criticism over its similarities to the Conservatives’ Rwanda deportation scheme that was abandoned by Labour.”
Albania hosts two Italian migration centers for migrants from Italy. But Rama publicly rejected the proposal.
“’I have been very clear since day one when we started this process with Italy that this was a one-off with Italy because of our very close relation but also because of the geographical situation, which makes a lot of sense. We have been asked by several countries if we are open to it and we said no because we are loyal to the marriage with Italy’.”
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