Keir Starmer dealt devastating blow live on ITV's Loose Women as Reform threat advances

A Loose Women star has said that the threat of Reform UK taking over Government was more than likely what prompted Prime Minister Keir Starmer's announcement on migrant plans earlier today (May 12). The Labour leader took to the podium in Downing Street this morning to announce new plans for how to tackle the migrant crisis.

Reflecting on the PM's speech, ITV host Christine Lampard pointed out: "There was one aspect, I think, that wasn't focused on and a lot of people will be asking questions about. That's the issue with the small boats coming across the Channel. Now that's the question off the back of this big press conference isn't it?"

Jane Moore said: "Yeah. I mean, you just said it really. It doesn't address, I think, when anyone talks about the issues. And I think why Reform is doing so well is obviously probably what prompted this.

"It's because people are worried about people coming into the country where we don't know who they are. I think that legal migration isn't so much of an issue. You know, you know who they are and you know what they're bringing to the country.

"I think like with anything, if you're invested in life in this country... I don't think anyone has an issue with where you're come from. But it's the people who come over here and we don't know who they are, they're not allowed to work so of course they become a financial drain. And then, that still remains unanswered."

She added: "I don't necessarily think that's what people are concerned about. It is the small boat crisis. And that, still, is not being addressed. The were terrible on this as well but for him to go on about the when, actually, uncontrolled migration started under new Labour and Tony Blair. The failed to get to grips with it, but he [Starmer] conveniently forgot about that part."

The update comes as 's Reform UK made big gains in English local elections last week. The party won 677 of around 1,600 seats contested on Thursday across a clutch of mainly Tory-held councils last contested in 2021. Reform seized control of eight authorities from the Conservatives, including former strongholds Kent and Staffordshire.

It also won its first mayoral contests in the newly-created combined authorities of Greater Lincolnshire, and Hull and East Yorkshire. In a speech, Farage was delighted as he said the results meant Reform had overtaken the as the main opposition party to Sir 's Labour government.