Keir Starmer insisted Nigel Farage would become 'irrelevant' if illegal immigration comes under control as he desperately defended the pact with France.
Polling shared with POLITICO shows a new party under Labour's left-wing former leader could dent the governing party's vote share — and take a big bite out of the Greens.
200 yards away a grossly overcrowded dinghy is pulled up alongside the Border Force cutter, about to unload its contingent of 78 migrants who left from a French beach a few hours earlier.
Sir Jake Berry, who was Conservative Party chairman under Liz Truss, announced he was ditching his former colleagues a year after losing his seat at the general election.
Mr Farage visited Kent days after James McMurdock resigned the party whip amid allegations that he took out government loans during the pandemic for firms with no employees.