Martin Hewitt UK Border Chief Quits
The head of the UK's border security command will step down at the end of March after failing to stem the surge in crossings. The Home Office confirmed Martin Hewitt would leave the post of border security commander after 18 months in the job.Since his appointment in September 2024, crossings have continued at sky-high levels - with 58,910 people making the journey in that time.His tenure also saw the second-highest annual total of people crossing the Channel, with 41,472 people arriving in the UK by small boat last year.It is understood he will leave at the end of the month, with an interim replacement appointed 'in due course'. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said the continuing small boats crisis was down to the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary. 'The Government's complete failure on small boats isn't down to Martin Hewitt,' he said. 'It's because Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood are too weak to take the necessary action - such as coming out of the European Convention on Human Rights and deporting all illegal immigrants within a week of arrival.'Labour's decision to cancel the Rwanda removals plan was a disaster - since the election 67,000 illegal immigrants have crossed the channel - an increase of 45 per cent compared to the same period before.Martin Hewitt isn't to blame for this - it's down to Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's failings.'So another of Starmer’s stooges has failed! I wonder how much his pay-off will cost us, the tax payers? Whoever gets appointed next is already doomed to failure because unless the illegals are detained on arrival and swiftly deported, they will not stop coming. Starmer must leave the ECHR to enable this but he is too weak.
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