Prime Minister Starmer announces Rwanda project is ‘dead and buried’

As Sir Keir Starmer faced the media, Nigel Farage posed for photos with locals at the bar at Wyldecrest Sports Country Club in Essex.

The British Reform Party leader and now MP for Clacton held a pint in one hand and a cigarette in the other as locals queued to have their photo taken with him, including one boy who asked him to say “Brexit means Brexit” so he could record it on a phone, which the British Reform Party leader did.

Farage criticised Starmer’s new cabinet, saying: “With a few exceptions, I think they are the most inexperienced people ever to come into a British cabinet.

“If you look at their personal history, their background and bear in mind that these are people who are making executive decisions that fundamentally affect people’s lives, I think they’re going to find it very, very difficult. And I say that because the country is facing some really fundamental problems, I think this government could find itself in trouble quite quickly.”

Asked for his reaction to the Prime Minister’s abandonment of his Rwanda plan, Farage said: “He said he would do it, at least he kept a promise, I suppose. Look, Rwanda was never going to work. What Keir Starmer is proposing, which is to tackle the gangs, well, frankly, you know, the last government was doing that for a few years, it’s not going to work.

“At the moment it’s very choppy and very windy, but we have pretty convincing first-hand evidence that as soon as it calms down they will be crossing the Channel in their thousands, and let’s be honest Keir Starmer has no plan to deal with that.”