Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of “successfully killing this country” as new figures show 2025 was the second-highest year on record for migrant crossings.
Speaking to GB News, commentator Clare Muldoon took aim at the Labour Government and expressed her frustration at the staggering number of small boat crossings last year alone.
According to new figures, arrivals to the UK jumped by 13 per cent in 2025, totalling just over 41,000 people.
The overall number of arrivals last year finished nine per cent below the all-time high of 45,774 in 2022.
Reacting to the figures, Ms Muldoon told GB News: “It’s not looking good for Labour’s plans to ‘smash the gangs’.
“Remember Yvette Cooper standing up saying she was going to smash those gangs, smash the business model, which really has to be done, but they clearly have done nothing about it.”
She added: “And the thing that really gets me is if we look at the pictures of these boats coming in, they’re not full of asylum seekers, they’re not full of refugees.
“They’re full of young men of fighting age, not emaciated in any way, shape or form. Young men and young boys.”
Clare Muldoon has told GB News that Labour is ‘successfully killing this country’
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Questioning where the latest influx of asylum seekers will be housed, Ms Muldoon asked: “Where is the parity in all of that? Where is the equality in all of that?
“What are we going to do with them? Where are we going to put them?”
She said: “We heard two days ago that the Labour Government was trialing, piloting a scheme for quite a few local authorities to build more houses to accommodate the asylum seekers.
“Well I’m sorry, first things first, sort out your own backyard before you go and build houses for anyone else.”
More than 40,000 migrants crossed the Channel in 2025 | PA
Highlighting the growing housing crisis among Britons amid the migrant crisis, the commentator stressed: “They’ve got hundreds of people in this country falling through the cracks, families in temporary accommodation because local authorities cannot get their acts together.
“Thank goodness they abolished the child benefit cap, because that then might bring some families up to some level of affordability. But this is awful.
“And this is right on the back of the Labour Government’s manifesto, and it’s right on the back of what Labour are trying to do at the moment. They’re trying and they’re succeeding in killing this country.”
Offering a defence for the Labour Government, commentator Judita da Silva said Britons must give Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood “time” to properly implement her plans.
The GB News panel discussed Britain’s migrant crisis
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Ms da Silva said: “I think first of all, the numbers are bleak, but then at the same time, you’ve got to actually give Shabana Mahmood time for all the plans she has in place to take hold, because it can’t work overnight.
“And the fact that she’s got these new partnerships happening with Europe, particularly with Germany, who are now, they’re going to, like they said, smash the gangs, they want to bring in a law that you can spend up to 10 years in jail if you aid the traffickers.”
She concluded: “Then you’ve also got that she’s adopted that Eastern European model, where you don’t get automatic housing, you don’t get automatic funding, you’re not going to be put into the houses that you’ve just mentioned. By being stricter and making it feel that when you come here it’s not an easy ride, she’s responding to what people have saying.
“They have been listening, but it’s going to take time to take effect, give them that time to prove it. Then in six months time, if you haven’t seen number numbers come down, have the kind of reaction you’re having now.”