The Government won’t admit it, but the situation in the Channel is a national security emergency.
The news only seems to get worse: drug dealers, murderers and even reported spies from Iran have exploited our open borders.
In just the past two months we have seen a spate of crimes, all allegedly committed by migrants.
A girl in Epping, sexually assaulted. A ten-year-old in Stockport, nearly kidnapped. Three stabbed in Southampton.
A 12-year-old in Nuneaton, a young woman in Portsmouth and an eight-year-old in Lambeth, all raped.
And those are just the crimes for which the immigration status of the perpetrator was recorded.
It’s no wonder fair-minded people are furious. They’re right to be.
When I see these stories, I can’t help but think that it could have been one of my three young daughters.
The top Tory admits he fears for his own three young daughters (pictured) against a backdrop of illegal migrants with ‘medieval attitudes’ crossing the Channel. Mr Jenrick, whose daughters are 14, 12 and ten, says the Channel crossings are now a ‘national security emergency’
Police officers stand guard as anti-immigration protesters gather in Liverpool, Britain, August 9, 2025
Anti illegal immigration protesters wave Union flags (Union Jacks) as police hold the line outside The Roundhouse hotel, on August 09, 2025 in Bournemouth
I certainly don’t want my children to share a neighbourhood with immigrant men with backward views who broke into Britain illegally, and about whom we know next to nothing.
And I don’t want anyone else’s family to have this forced on them either.
My eldest daughter is 14 and already I worry about her safety as she starts to do things independently. It’s challenging enough without this to contend with.
I can only sympathise with the mothers and fathers peacefully protesting outside asylum hotels who have been pushed to breaking point.
They will have read the stories of illegal migrants loitering around schools and parks, many of whom have deplorable attitudes towards women (so much so that the Home Office issues guidance to illegal migrants on what sexual assault is, for goodness sake).
Quite understandably, parents refuse to sit back while their family’s safety is jeopardised. Their response is natural: we must protect our children.
For years, the British public have been gaslit. They’ve been told that as many women and children make small-boat crossings as men. Fact check: nearly 90 per cent are men.
Protesters demonstrate outside the Barbican Thistle Hotel housing migrants on August 2, 2025 in London, England
Anti-fascist protesters take part in a counter demonstration as anti-refugee protesters hold a demonstration outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in London, United Kingdom on August 02, 2025
Protestors gathered outside the Britannia Hotel in Bournemouth on Friday after it was announced it would be used to house asylum seekers
They’ve been told they are genuine refugees, when many are economic opportunists who have travelled through multiple safe countries and broken the law to reach the UK.
Those who have dared to make the link between uncontrolled migration and crime have been sneered at by the metropolitan elite, safely ensconced in their ivory towers.
Only at the turn of this year I was criticised for saying some of those who have migrated to the UK have, frankly, medieval attitudes to women.
I was right and I’m not backing down. It’s obvious that some societies have higher levels of violent and sexual crime, and individuals who migrate from those countries to the UK are unlikely to shed that baggage quickly.
Sometimes it takes multiple generations to do so, as the over-representation of men with Pakistani heritage in the rape-gang scandal shows.
The truth is that mass, uncontrolled immigration has been fuelling crime and made women and girls less safe.
But out of a mixture of bureaucratic inertia and weak leadership, the data has been covered up.
So much so that when I warned last year that terror suspects were crossing in small boats, I was reprimanded by the Home Office.
The mandarins – backed by the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper – sought to censor me.
But I will not be silenced as dangerous people break into the country. Fortunately, things are now changing. A series of Freedom of Information requests have ushered in an immigration glasnost.
Protesters wave Union Jack flags behind barricades outside the Park Hotel in Chichester on Friday
Protestors gather outside the Britannia Hotel in Bournemouth on Friday after it was announced its being used as a migrant hotel
And the indicative data supports what the public have long suspected.
According to the Centre for Migration Control, using Ministry of Justice figures, foreign nationals were responsible for at least
15 per cent of sexual offences committed between 2021 and 2023 – and possibly as much as 23 per cent, when the number of defendants of ‘unknown’ nationality are considered.
This is hugely disproportionate.
Foreign nationals make up just 9 per cent of the UK population, according to the last Census, which means they’re more than twice as likely to be responsible for sexual offences than the rest of us.
And in London alone, foreign nationals were responsible for 40 per cent of cautions and charges for sexual assault.
The data suggests some nationalities, such as Germans and Americans, are no more likely to commit crimes than Brits.
But other nationalities are significantly more likely. The indicative data shows Albanians are 153 times more likely to be convicted of a drug offence than a Brit. Congolese nationals are 12 times more likely to be convicted of a violent crime.
Anti-immigration demonstrators display Union Jack and England flags as they gather outside the Cresta Court hotel
Protesters outside The Bell Hotel in Epping on Friday evening with Union Jack flags and St George’s Flags
Protesters walk along a road during an anti-immigration demonstration in Epping on Friday
Counter protestors were also in attendance at the Britannia Hotel Migrant Protest, holding signs that say ‘refugees welcome’ and ‘stop the far right’
And Afghan and Eritrean nationals are 20 times more likely to be convicted of a sexual offence.
As a result, we now have a record number of violent and sexual predators from abroad clogging up our prisons at extraordinary cost. We must remove every single one of these sick individuals.
No ifs, no buts. I care infinitely more about the safety of British women and girls than the rights of foreign offenders.
If they don’t want to be deported, they shouldn’t have committed a serious crime. Keeping the public safe is the first duty of the British Government.
While the latest data dragged out of the Government is progress, it doesn’t show the whole picture.
We need the full, verified data, published regularly, including more up-to-date figures about the size of demographic groups.
I tabled an amendment to lift the veil of secrecy over migrant crime under the last Government.
I have just done so again under this Government. I won’t stop until the Ministry of Justice publishes the background of criminals by their nationality, country of birth, visa status, asylum status and their method of entry to the UK.
Starmer has a choice: release the data or be complicit in a scandalous cover-up.
Transparency is one thing, but above all we need action. The illegal migrants and foreign offenders here must be deported, even if they’ve qualified for settlement. If countries won’t take back their
citizens, we should suspend the granting of visas and foreign aid until they do.
Just recently it was reported Pakistan was refusing to take
back three rapists until the UK allows direct flights between the two countries via its national airline, PIA, which were grounded due to safety concerns.
This is a country we give £133million in aid to. Enough. Starmer should suspend that money if the Pakistani authorities don’t do the right thing.
Simply, we need to stop worsening the problem of crime committed in the UK. How? By ending mass migration.
By putting the safety and interests of Britons at the heart of our immigration system. By radically reducing the number of visas issued to nationals from high-risk countries.
This problem did not start under Starmer. The last Government made serious mistakes – mistakes that led me to resign, so angry
was I at the unwillingness to do what I knew needed to be done. But this issue is blighting our country so much that it is now beyond party politics.
The error the last Government made was to fail to close all the loopholes that frustrated the removal of illegal migrants and foreign offenders. If he wants to succeed, Starmer has to learn quickly.
Otherwise the British people will continue to suffer. We have enough of a problem with crime running out of control – it’s reckless to keep making it worse.
