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Appearing on TalkTV to discuss the migrant crisis on Kevin O’Sullivan’s Plank of the Week show, broadcaster Rafe Heydel-Mankoo hit out at the Prime Minister over how more than 41,000 illegal migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats in 2025. Heydel-Mankoo fumed on Thursday evening’s broadcast: “We now have, of course, illegal migration, which we have not seen this high since 2022. Over 40,000, that’s 30 per cent higher than last year, that’s 40 per cent higher than the year before. It’s almost as high as 2022. The economy has tanked, and billionaires are fleeing the country more than anywhere else apart from Russia. The list just goes on and on.”

The commentator also said: “Starmer has given an interview in which he has said, with all the assertiveness of a suburban accountant, that he definitely will be Prime Minister in 2027.

“Now a truly confident Prime Minister would say he’d be leading his party into the next general election, but even he knows that is too ridiculous and far-fetched.”

He continued: “The knives are out for Starmer – the question is of course… who is going to plunge the knife?” O’Sullivan added: “They are lining up to stab him, not in the back, but in the front.”

In a recent interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Starmer said: “I was elected in 2024 with a five-year mandate to change the country, and that’s what I intend to do, to be faithful to that mandate.

“I will be sitting in this seat by 2027, and if this long-form interview works, we can try it again in January of next year as well.”

He also said: “Under the last government, we saw constant chopping and changing of leadership, of teams, it caused utter chaos, utter chaos, and it’s amongst the reasons that the Tories were booted out so effectively at the last election.”

“I will be judged, and I know I’ll be judged, when we get to the next election, on whether I’ve delivered on the key things that matter most to people,” the UK leader added during the interview.