
GB News issues an urgent report from Home and Security Editor Mark White as he issued some bad news for Keir Starmer and the Labour government. Presenter Charlie Peters spoke about the news thatasylum seekers are due to be removed from The Bell Hotel in Epping after a council was granted a temporary High Court injunction which has been blocking them from staying there.
He said on air: "The ruling has presented the government with a fresh headache. Not only do they need to find new accommodation for the migrants housed in the Bell Hotel, but the ruling has also shone a fresh spotlight on whether the government is doing enough to stop the small boats crossing the channel in the first place." The show then went over to Mark White, who was reporting live from Epping, as he gave a brutal verdict on the small boats crisis.
He said: "This week has been unusual for the height of summer in the Channel, we've not had any crossings because it has been windy and it is going to continue being windy for the next few days yet.
"The only respite that the government gets during this whole small boats crisis is Mother Nature and her intervention here, because that seems to be the only thing stopping the vast numbers coming across, pushing soon 51,000 since Starmer came to office.
"The more people that come across the channel, the more people that need to be accommodated, either in hotels, which the government has vowed it is going to end the use of hotels for housing asylum seekers by the end of this parliament, but then where do they go? Houses of multiple occupation, flats in the street near you and me, and that is what is concerning so many people around the country."
It comes after Labour minister Jacqui Smith admitted that the government had failed to tackle the small boats crisis so far.
She said on Sky News: "This is a problem that has, up to this point, we haven't managed to tackle in terms of the numbers who are coming here.
"But it is a completely legitimate claim to say that is happening is the result of the last government who chose to focus on gimmicks, the Rwanda scheme which returned four volunteers.
She added: "We're taking responsibility. I don't believe it was our fault that it was enabled to take root in the way in which it has done by a government who failed to do what was necessary."
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