GB News didn’t hold back this weekend, delivering a brutal takedown of Keir Starmer’s handling of the UK’s asylum policy. During a fiery segment, presenter Ben Leo and commentator Lizzie Cundy went in hard on the prime minister, accusing him of wasting millions on new plans to stop illegal Channel crossings — plans they claim are doing very little.
Ben questioned: “If they’re failed asylum seekers, why can’t we just send them back to where they came from?” prompting Lizzie to jump in with her blunt take: “Exactly, which I’ve always said. We need to leave the ECHR… but how is this different to Rwanda? It was already set in place. It seems extraordinary”, reported the Express.
She didn’t stop there. Lizzie pointed the finger squarely at Starmer’s decision to ditch the Rwanda policy, calling it an ego move. “So really it’s Starmer’s ego which cancelled Rwanda and now he’s doing the same here, it just doesn’t make sense,” she said. “And for him saying ‘smashing the gangs’ — he couldn’t smash the top off his Easter Cadbury’s egg this Easter.”
That jab got a laugh from Ben, who teased: “You’ve been saving that one up for a while!” But Lizzie wasn’t joking, continuing, “Where’s the detail? Where’s the strategy? Where’s the targets? He needs to stop acting like an out of work barrister and give us some detail.”
Ben did briefly try to offer some balance, mentioning that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has backed Starmer’s current approach. “They say, ‘Yep, good on you, Sir Keir,’” he noted. But Lizzie was having none of it.
She came back with more frustration over the government’s apparent lack of control: “So right, how is this really making sense? Why didn’t he continue with Rwanda? It was a deterrent. Look at the amount of boats that have come over — 705 in one day. 2,000 this week. It’s 43% up from this time last year, it’s pathetic.”
Starmer had already made clear last year that he was scrapping the Rwanda scheme, calling it a “gimmick” that was dead before it even began. He pointed out that it would have removed “less than 1%” of those arriving in small boats.
But for critics like those on GB News, that explanation isn’t cutting it — and they’re making sure the public hears just how unimpressed they are.
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