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The Home Secretary’s latest immigration announcement is yet another attempt to emulate our language and ideas, but she has one big problem: the public don’t trust her.

The latest polling by Ipsos highlights this significant problem. When it comes to who the public trust to manage asylum and immigration, Reform is way in front at 35%. Labour – although better than the Conservatives’ 5% – wallow towards the bottom on 7%.

This is no surprise. Labour’s handling of illegal migration has been an unmitigated disaster. We’re not even at the end of the year and we’ve already experienced a 15% increase on Channel crossings in 2025 alone compared to the entirety of 2024.

Labour’s Borders Bill, which was touted as the silver bullet to control illegal migration when it was announced back in January, has still not passed, and there are serious fears that these measures will face similar delays.

Mahmood, who not that long ago called for a general amnesty for all undocumented workers in the UK, also faces significant challenges from her own backbenches.

The Parliamentary Labour Party – a group that is so out of touch with the priorities of the British people that they’d rather import a doctor who can’t speak English than train someone here who can – won’t let these measures go without a fight.

Just in the first few hours of the announcement, 17 Labour MPs came out of the gates to criticise Mahmood’s proposals. This may seem like a small trickle, but should the dam burst the government will be forced into yet another humiliating U-turn.

Because we all know this isn’t a government that governs for the people, but one that governs for its own backbenches.

In any case, these proposals are little more than posturing. The headlines generated by Mahmood’s Reform-like language and rhetoric may resonate with the British public, but at its core there is a complete unwillingness to address the real blocker to stopping illegal migration: international treaties.

This is a government filled to the brim with lawyers and led by a human rights lawyer, all of whom are more worried about upsetting international courts than standing up for the rights of British citizens.

It’s only Reform who recognise that the only way to stop illegal migration is to leave the European Convention on Human Rights and repeal the Human Rights Act to join other modern democracies such as Canada and Australia outside of this stifling framework, and derogate from all other international treaties used by activist lawyers to frustrate deportations. Anything short of this is just lip service.

The posturing continues throughout these proposals. As part of this package, the Home Office also announced restrictions on visas from Angola, Namibia and Congo.

Of course, there is no rhyme or reason for these measures, considering a total of 15 people from those countries entered the UK illegally in the last year, and asylum applications from these nationalities accounted for 0.24% of all asylum claims in the same time period.

This is simply more rhetoric designed to sound tough, but in reality has next to no substance behind it.

The people of Britain are tired of platitudes. They simply want illegal migration stopped and legal migration controlled so we can catch up and look after our own.

Whilst we wish the Home Secretary well, we doubt that she and her government have the ability or political will to get anything done. Until we elect a government that has the guts to stand up to international courts, this problem will continue with no end in sight.