Facts
Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick posted on X “Keir Starmer is now opening the door to taking over 100,000 illegal migrants from the safety of the EU.”
As Full Fact notes: “This is misleading. The 100,000 figure is a Conservative party estimate which is not reliable, because it makes several assumptions and appears to misinterpret a recent EU agreement on relocating asylum seekers. We don’t know how many migrants the UK might take under a future returns deal with the EU – Labour has not said what such a deal would involve, or how many migrants it would accept.”
Verdict
Similar misleading statements have been made by numerous conservative MPs and the Prime Minister, see all similar posts here.
We emailed Robert Jenrick’s office offering him the chance to respond. The email was received, but no reply. We also emailed the Home Office with our analysis, they responded “I’m afraid we can only respond to media outlets, so this wouldn’t be one for us.”