GB News ground to a halt minutes into their afternoon show as they issued two major breaking news alerts in quick succession. On Friday, May 8th, the UK has been on tenterhooks, desperately waiting for the results of the local elections to flood in overnight. At the time of writing this article, Reform have stormed to victory with 642 seats secured in Government, followed by the Lib Dems with 426, Conservatives with 364 and Labour with 353, as the latest results were announced on GB News alongside a breaking news banner.
It has been a disastrous night for Labour with the party haemorrhaging seats across the country. Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to stay in post, despite calls from within his own party to step aside. Last night, Barry Gardiner MP told the Express that the Prime Minister had to go if the results of the elections were bad for the party.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch MP has likewise called for the Prime Minister to vacate No. 10 post-election. The Prime Minister leaving would increase calls for an early General Election. But that isn’t the only thing Sir Keir Starmer is worrying about.
Moments after announcing the crushing results for Labour, Martin Daubney issued another breaking news alert as he announced that more than 200,000 illegal migrants crossed the English Channel since 2018 in a shocking new milestone. The station revealed the grim tally this morning after a group of 70 migrants were taken to the Border Force processing centre at Dover Harbour.
The group had been on a dinghy that launched from a beach near Dunkirk shortly before 7.30am. The People’s Channel obtained a social media video posted live by a migrant as they left the coast of northern France on their journey across the Channel.
Just two hours later, they reached UK waters where they were collected by the Border Force vessel Ranger. At the Western Jetfoil in Dover Harbour, where migrants are offloaded, reporters counted 70 migrants taken in for brief medical and security checks.
This latest arrival takes the number of migrants to have crossed the Channel since 2018 to 200,013. Official figures show that the number of people crossing by small boats has increased rapidly over the last eight years.
In 2018, just 299 migrants crossed the channel, but last year, it rose to 41,472. It is understood that 7,400 migrants have made the dangerous journey across the Channel so far this year. It didn’t take long before viewers flocked to social media to share their thoughts on the news alerts online.
