Facts
Transport Under Secretary Richard Holden posted on X “Today, [Keir Starmer] invited the EU to send 100,000 illegal economic migrants a year to [the UK]”
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 multiple conservative MPs and the Prime Minister, see all similar posts here.
We emailed Richard Holden’s office offering him the chance to respond. We received no response.