French officials have warned that the new UK-France migrant returns agreement will attract more people to the Channel coast. The suggestion directly contradicts Sir Keir Starmer's assertion that it will "break the model" of smuggling gangs.

Keir Starmer’s government has hit its lowest ever approval rating with the public, according to a damning new poll. The YouGov survey, carried out to mark Labour’s first year in power, found that just 13% of voters are happy with the party’s performance. By contrast, 67% of the public say they disapprove of how the government is doing.

Keir Starmer has come under pressure over claims more state pensioners will be forced to pay income tax. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch attacked the Prime Minister over frozen tax bands which are pushing more pensioners into paying income tax.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has condemned the Government's new migrant returns deal with France as "another hopeless gimmick" that will fail to deter Channel crossings. Speaking on GB News, Philp criticised the pilot scheme announced by Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron,

Although MPs comfortably passed the government’s Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments Bill by 336 votes to 242, dozens of Labour backbenchers thumbed their nose at the prime minister. Some 47 voted against the legislation, with a further 14 abstaining.

The Prime Minister cuts a dash on the international stage, but at home seems detached from his own administration

Political commentator Matthew Goodwin has launched a scathing attack on Sir Keir Starmer's newly announced migration deal with France, declaring "this is not going to work" and claiming "Britons are crying inside" over the agreement.

The effect of the policy is to drag millions of workers into higher tax bands when their pay goes up, raising tens of billions of pounds for the Treasury in the process. But critics say this is a stealth tax, a sneaky way of giving the chancellor more money to spend without having to increase the rate of income tax or National Insurance.