Labour MP Mary Creagh has mocked Brexit benefits (Image: Getty)
A Labour minister has mocked and seemingly blamed the historic Leave vote for Britain’s migration crisis.
Mary Creagh, a vocal supporter of a second referendum, risked angering Sir by taking to social media to offer a withering assessment of Britain’s historic vote.
She wrote on X: “Immigration up. Growth down. Food, agriculture & fishing sectors worst hit”.
And Polish PM Donald Tusk – who was European Council president during much of the negotiations – has waded in by joking “we still miss you”.
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Keir Starmer is facing claims he is trying to take the UK back into the EU’s orbit (Image: Getty)
A wide-ranging poll for the Daily Express, carried out by Whitestone Insight, provides a withering assessment of the government’s popularity after just six months in power.
Critics argue that if Sir Keir gives the green light to joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention (PEM), a European customs scheme, Britain’s global trading capabilities will suffer.
According to the poll, which came on the eve of the 5th anniversary of , most people, 43%, believe would be a better success if the UK could trade more openly across world markets, followed by stopping illegal immigration, 42%, and attracting more business investment, 37%.
A blizzard of eye-catching results show that just 9% of voters say they trust Sir Keir “a lot” to maximise while just over half, 51%, do not trust him and his Government “at all” to do so.
Current Labour voters are lukewarm in their backing for the party’s capability on , with only one in five, 19%, say they trust the current government “a lot” to deliver.
Voters also overwhelmingly don’t trust Sir Keir to curb immigration with 62% saying they don’t think he will.
The results come a day after stark new figures revealed that migration will lead to another five million people living in the UK in the next seven years, driving the country’s population to 72.5 million.
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Some 68% of voters agreed that they “accept the need to allow immigration but feel that successive governments have let the country down by failing to control it”.
Of these, 63% of Labour voters agreed, 77% of and 85% of Reform UK supporters.
Only 20% of people overall said they are “happy with current levels of immigration”.
Labour voters came out on top with 35% while only 10% of said they were happy and just 2% of Reform UK supporters.