What trust?
WHY can’t ministers just tell us where they plan to house migrants once spending on hotels stops?
Their only answer to the question is to repeatedly insist that the Government wants to deport those who have no right whatsoever to be here.
How can voters have any trust in that?
In the year to March, just 6,339 people were forcibly returned.
But more than 15,000 have arrived illegally by small boat already in 2025.
Another 125,000 people are still waiting for decisons on their asylum claims.
So in the unlikely event ministers find an immediate way of either stopping the boats entirely or sending migrants straight back to France, tens of thousands will have to be housed for years.
The uncomfortable truth for the Government is that the vast majority will be shoved into rented accommodation — for several years to come.
Blocks of flats filled largely with young, unemployed men.
All living for free among families struggling to pay the bills.
Surely even the Home Office can see this is not a recipe for community cohesion?
Zero cheer
PRESIDING over an economy as remorselessly sluggish as the UK’s, it was perhaps unwise of the Chancellor to boast that Britain has enjoyed the fastest growth in the whole of the G7.
Yesterday’s GDP figures for April showing a 0.3 per cent fall mean we are now in danger of having the fastest SLOWING economy.
Some of the mini-slump was caused by Donald Trump’s insane tariffs.
But the cost to businesses of the National Insurance rise on employers is now very real.
It has cost jobs, while also squeezing wages and consumer spending.
Next spring, bigger bills landing on the doorstep will include whacking great council tax.
That is now set to rise at the fastest rate for 25 years. Far from fixing the foundations, the Chancellor’s problems are again piling up.
Awful April might just signal the start of an even worse year.
Pray for them
THE terrible scenes which unfolded during the Air India crash were, as the King said, desperately shocking.
It is horrifying to think of so many loved ones gone in a few moments of appalling tragedy.
Couples like Brits Fiongal and Jamie Greenlaw-Meek, who were just returning from a holiday of a lifetime.
Yesterday was a day of overwhelming pain and grief.
Today, as the mourning continues, the search for answers to this dreadful tragedy must begin.
