Keir Starmer’s new EU migrant settlement might end in 100,000 new arrivals

The Conservatives have blasted Sir Keir Starmer’s new proposal to open Britain’s door to EU asylum seekers.

Sir Keir’s first concrete migration proposals emerged final night time, with Labour pledging to soak up extra migrants from the EU in return for a brand new borders cope with Brussels.

Despite the EU already rejecting a returns settlement with the Government, Labour believes they’ll do a deal on the grounds of providing to be extra beneficiant in accepting Britain’s justifiable share of migrants.

Labour would scrap the present Rwanda deportation deal, and use the money to funnel round £160million into the National Crime Agency.

Both Sir Keir and shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper arrived within the Hague yesterday night for talks with Europe.

However the Tories have launched a blistering assault on the Labour chief’s new proposals, warning it is going to end in as many as 100,000 new migrants getting into Britain each single yr.

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick mentioned their ‘plan’ is a “recipe for even more illegal migration”.

“If they’re not campaigning to allow illegal migrants to stay, Labour are lobbying for even greater incentives for migrants to come here illegally from the safety of France.”

“The truth is Labour are totally unprepared to make the tough, but necessary decisions to stop the boats.

“They treat the valid concerns of the British public with utter disdain”.

The figures being pushed by the Tories this morning come from a Council of the EU doc, revealed in June this yr, across the proposal for regulating asylum and migration administration.

Clause 31 of the doc says that distribution of migrants inside an EU sharing association, like Sir Keir desires to enter, can be based mostly “on the size of the population and the economy of the Member State”.

“In the operationalisation of the Solidarity Pool, contributing Member States should implement their pledges in proportion to their overall pledge, meaning that each time solidarity is drawn from the pool these Member States contribute according to their fair share.”

Tory calculations recommend the UK would comprise 13 p.c of the EU’s complete 520 million inhabitants, and subsequently have to soak up 100,000 of the EU’s 1 million migrant arrivals final yr.

That might go increased if Europe’s migration disaster will get worse over the approaching years, nonetheless.

Last night time, Sir Keir’s spokesman admitted the UK must take into account taking migrants from the continent in the event that they need to safe a cope with the EU.

He advised reporters: “If you want to have a conversation about returns agreements, then that will need to be a conversation that happens.

“The details of those conversations will follow. But it is clear that having returns agreements is an essential part of being able to deal with the backlog and end the use of hotels.

“The exact way it would operate would have to be for negotiation.”

He admitted Labour is assured it may safe a deal and admitted it could possibly be a part of a wider plan to forge nearer ties with Brussels.