End this criminal trade in workers
WHILE Chancellor Rachel Reeves splurges £113billion on capital projects, times are still hard for millions of Brits.
The prospect of more crippling tax rises is looming over the already stalling economy.
Illegal immigrant labour is driving an illegitimate economy at a huge cost to the taxpayerAFP
But that is the legitimate economy, the one that struggles along supported by the graft of hard-working taxpayers.
Meanwhile, Black Market Britain is booming.
This illegal economy is worth an estimated £260billion and costs HMRC £2.2billion a year in lost taxes.
A staggering one in 11 adults is now employed in this sinister shadow world.
It functions across every town and city in Britain and much of it is being driven by illegal migrant labour.
While deluded Cabinet Ministers like Darren Jones believe small boat arrivals are mostly women and children, the reality is starkly different.
Gangs of young, male illegal migrants hang around our cities daily waiting to be picked up for jobs in the black market.
They are exploited by unscrupulous bosses who pay as little as £30 a day.
But these cash-in-hand jobs and the free accommodation on offer is the magnet that lures many to Britain in the first place.
The law-abiding taxpayer is getting mugged at both ends, funding accommodation and healthcare costs for migrants while seeing the black market undercut legitimate businesses.
Successive governments have failed to tackle this mess.
But PM Keir Starmer must grasp the fact that ending the illegal economy is as vital as stopping the boats.
And he doesn’t have to rely on the French to help him do it.
Guard us against Iran
IRAN’S brutal Revolutionary Guards must be immediately banned in Britain.
The despots of Tehran have warned they will seek revenge on any country which assists Israel in its entirely justified assault on their terrorist state.
We know the Guards are already behind hit squads targeting opponents of their despotic regime in this country.
Only recently our security services warned that they had thwarted numerous Iran-backed death plots.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper promised last month to proscribe the ruthless Guards as a terrorist organisation.
But ministers appeared to be dragging their feet for fear of derailing backroom diplomatic deals with the Iranian regime.
Keir Starmer moved quickly yesterday to deploy British jets to the Middle East.
Now he must take immediate action to protect Brits and Israelis on our streets.
We cannot afford any delay.
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