Under Keir Starmer’s Labour government, influential Home Office civil servants and top-ranking Border Force officials are earning salaries of up to £260,000 (€300,089)—despite the migration disaster unfolding on their shores.
Paid at almost seven times the median UK wage, the bumbling penpushers have seen a record 50,000 known illegal migrants arrive illegally by ‘small boat’ since Starmer took office. With no end in sight, Rob Bates of the Centre for Migration Control estimated that Britain was now on course to take in 50,000 illegal migrants this year alone: “We’re about 40% up when it comes to Channel crossings on last year.”
Controversial pay packages include:
- Home Office Second Permanent Secretary Simon Ridley: £170,000–175,000 (after a £5,000 pay rise);
- Border Force Director-General Philip Douglas: £140,000–145,000 (after a £5,000 pay rise, plus £10,000–£15,000 bonuses);
- Director General of the Migration and Borders Group at the Home Office, Daniel Hobbs: £130,000–£135,000 (after a £5,000 pay rise);
- Ex-Home Office Permanent Secretary Sir Matthew Rycroft: £255,000–260,000 (after an eyewatering £50,000 pay rise).
According to Reform UK chief whip Lee Anderson
If they were working in the private sector, they’d be sacked … They shouldn’t be getting any rises or bonuses. They are failing.
The government has tried to defend the spending spree, with a source ‘leaking’ that the salary settlements were agreed under the previous premiership of hapless Rishi ‘Stop the Boats’ Sunak. Nevertheless, the bumper pay rises will only add to the growing anger over Britain’s loss of border control.
