Daniel Powell

Andy Burnham is escorting to our shores and laying on police escorts for military aged men who seek to kill British people. The illegal boat crisis is a national security emergency. Deng Chol Majek broke in by boat and was put up in the Park Inn in Walsall.  He followed Rhiannon Whyte, a 27-year-old mother who worked at that hotel, onto an empty station platform. He stabbed her 23 times with a screwdriver. He bought beer and danced in the hotel car park. Rhiannon's six-year-old son will grow up without his mother. Ahmed Alid walked off a ferry from Holland in late 2020 with no passport and no visa.  Border Force let him in.  He was housed at taxpayers' expense in Hartlepool. He armed himself with two knives and murdered 70-year-old Terence Carney in the street.  He told police that with a machine gun and more weapons he would have killed more.  The judge ruled it terrorism. Fayaz Khan filmed his own illegal Channel crossing for his TikTok, then threatened to murder Nigel Farage MP.  He already had 17 convictions from Sweden, including for carrying a knife. If he arrived today, he’d probably get a police escort to his free hotel. Abdullah Albadri arrived by boat last year. Sixteen days later he attempted a terrorist attack on the Israeli embassy. Rebwar Hamad was convicted of terrorism in Italy and refused a UK visa.  So he simply paid smugglers €1,200 and arrived on a dinghy in September 2025. MI5 says Iran has attempted more than 20 lethal plots here in the last year. The Telegraph reports that men linked to Iranian intelligence have been intercepted on illegal boats. This is the tip of the iceberg. Escorting to our shores and laying on police escorts for such dangerous men is appalling betrayal. We must declare a national emergency, put our Navy in the Channel and secure our border. We must detain and deport all those the Tories and Labour allowed into Britain illegally. That’s what Reform will do.