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WATCH: Keir Starmer should 'put Britain's self-interest first', Candice Holdsworth says
Oct 19, 2025
Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to take "radical action" to solve Britain's migrant crisis after a handful of Channel migrants were returned to France.Speaking to GB News, broadcaster Candice Holdsworth criticised the Labour Government for their "timidness" in comparison to other countries in tackling illegal migration.FULL STORY HERE.
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Yes, I think you're right. I think there's a lack of clear driving purpose
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And, you know, there's a kind of timidity that you don't see in places which have been very successful at stopping illegal migration, like Australia and the U.S
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I mean, in Australia, they were intercepting boats and actually taking them back. In the U.S., some would say it goes too far, but they've created what they believe to be a very hostile environment for illegal immigration
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Though I think the figures do bear it out. Crossings on the southern border of the U.S. have dropped by 95 percent
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Here, people seem to be a bit torn. I mean, the Conservative Party was very torn over the Rwanda scheme
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I haven't heard anything more about that, even though that kind of model is successful for providing a strong enough deterrent
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They talk about leaving the ECHR. Maybe that could help. But I think you need lots of different things
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I think possibly you do have to intercept boats. Maybe that's impractical with France
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Australia could do it with Indonesia. Maybe we can't. I think you need a very, very, very strong legal deterrent as well
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And I think possibly, yes, some of the international law and the international legal obligations we have
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maybe we need to put our self-interest first. I mean, look at Greece. Greece has suspended asylum claims because they just feel overwhelmed
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and they think that the system doesn't work for them anymore. So, yeah, there's something very timid in the UK about this issue
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And I think that unless perhaps maybe we are willing to take radical action it can be solved You have rehearsed there the sorts of actions that can be taken Now for example the so deterrent effect of threatening that we going to deport people
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I think reform's policy is that as people come in, they'll sort of be put into some sort of camp
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and then eventually they'll be deported. But if they come from Afghanistan, how do we deport them
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And that is why one puts a big question mark over whether these schemes can have a deterrent effect
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because they need to be credible. Yes, that's true. Although I think Germany has worked something out with Afghanistan, like returning people there
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I think one of the big things, I mean, someone who is an expert on this told me, is working more with Libya
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Because, I mean, obviously, since things sort of broke down in Libya, so many people are moving from there, from North Africa to the European coast
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So maybe we need to work more with people in that region to stop the flow
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Yeah, it's a very, very difficult issue. Though if you look at the US and you look at Australia, when they had the strong legal deterrence, it does work because people do make rational decisions
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They do think, what is the chance of me being able to claim asylum in this country
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They're not going to undertake the journey. They're not going to pay the human trafficker if they think there's a big chance of failure
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They won't. We know that. We know it's an incentives game. We know that
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In the US, they've said that. It is all an incentives game. And if you do that, if you manage the incentives correctly, you'll be able to stop it
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