Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that current migrant numbers could "double" by the end of the year, as Research Director Rob Bates declared the crisis is "getting out of hand".

Speaking to GB News, Rob Bates, from the Centre of Migration Control, claimed that Britain could see 50,000 migrants cross illegally into Britain by the end of the year.

So far this, GB News figures have counted more than 26,000 migrants who have arrived illegally from across the Channel.

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Sharing his stark prediction for the record-breaking numbers, Bates told GB News: "I think we're now at the point that this is far exceeding even the worst years that we saw in 2022 and 2023.

"We're about 40 per cent up when it comes to Channel crossings on last year, and we are probably going to see 50,000 people come across the English Channel."

Highlighting the percentage of those that will end up being deported under Labour's new exchange scheme with France, Bates added: "And then you look at what the Government are actually trying to introduce in terms of a scheme with France, one in, one out, that probably by the end of this year will in the best case scenario see 800 people returned to France.

"You realise that actually their plan would see two per cent of those that are probably going to come across this year removed."

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As host Christopher Hope argued that it could be the start of a "successful policy" for Starmer, Bates claimed that the scheme could result in "longer-term costs" for Britons.

Bates explained: "We need to ask ourselves whether having a scheme where we end up with the same number of asylum seekers, just at different stages of being processed through the system, is something that the British public would actually tolerate at this point.

"We need to realise that actually the British public are more concerned about the cost of this, and if we're bringing in individuals who've had their asylum claims processed and accepted, these are then individuals who are now our responsibility to look after and when needed to provide welfare and housing, without any spectre of them being removed from the country."

He added: "So this actually could cause us to incur longer-term costs that are perhaps hidden in the welfare bill, and there is a very real risk that this could actually end up harming us economically, more so than the current chaos that we've got."

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Criticising the system's reliance on human rights laws, Bates argued that there is a "very strong need for us to have a conversation about to what extent our border policy in general is exposing us to risks".

Taking aim at Attorney General Lord Hermer, Bates said: "Arguably, any individual coming to this country should not be committing a single crime, and if they are, they should be deported.

"We've ended up with a situation where we have up to 100,000 people in HMOs and hotels across the country. This is clearly something that's getting out of hand, and there doesn't seem to be anything solid or strong around which a proper framework of deterrence can be built with this Labour Party.

"They can change the law as much as they like, but whether they have the operational capacity and the operational willingness to actually get tackling, get tough, and whether that does involve having a frank a conversation with Lord Hermer and telling him that perhaps he needs to wind his neck in a bit when it comes to his obsession with human rights law."