There's a people's revolution taking place in UK and Keir Starmer and Labour are in denial

Keir Starmer is in denial about the people's revolution taking place across the UK. In towns and cities up and down the country mums, dads and grandparents are taking to the streets to protest about the numbers of illegal immigrants in Britain and about the absurdity of 32,000 asylum seekers living in hotels free of charge while many Brits struggle to pay their rent.

Worse still, some of the adult men we've given refuge are attacking our vulnerable young girls. The public has rightly had enough. Yet Starmer's response to these impassioned pleas from groups of people who have probably never protested before has been typically tin-eared.

Rather than take action to deport these illegal migrants and prevent more coming into the country, he is instead going to snoop on otherwise law-abiding citizens and set up a new elite unit of police officers - the National Internet Intelligence Investigations team - to monitor social media for anti-migrant sentiment. In so doing he is about to crush free speech and stifle legitimate opposition.

We shouldn't be surprised. TwoTier Keir, the ultimate open-borders globalist, has never taken public concerns about mass immigration seriously. Rhetoric such as "smash the gangs" were just empty words to con the voters and get elected. His actual response to those who question immigration levels is to mark them out as far-right extremists and sideline them as ignorant.

The best thing Starmer could do this week is declare immigration levels a national emergency, recall MPs, and vote to resurrect the Rwanda Scheme: the only deterrent that has been developed to tackle illegal immigration, and the only feasible way of deporting people who have deliberately destroyed their documentation en route to the UK. Starmer scrapped this scheme on day one of his premiership without even looking at it or speaking to officials.

But given he is the master of the U-turn he shouldn't find it too difficult to perform another and quietly resurrect the scheme again. By copying the Rwanda model - but using Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and El Salvador instead - Trump managed to deport 139,000 immigrants up to April this year.

It's acted as a deterrent too - as Rwanda would. Latest numbers show just 7,181 crossings or attempted crossings from Mexico in March, compared to 143,000 in the same month last year, and June 2025 saw the lowest number of attempts or crossings in 25 years at just 6,070. Trump was also right to tell the UK and the EU: "You've got to stop this horrible invasion that's happening to Europe", adding: "You got to get your act together".

Deporting illegal immigrants to a third country like Rwanda is the only way Starmer can "get his act together". If he keeps hiding from the public and running away from the issue the people's revolution will rightly sweep him from office.

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It was another great weekend for British sport with the Lionesses successfully retaining their Euros title, and the British and Irish Lions beating Australia Down Under at rugby. Most countries specialise in a small number of sports.

We compete successfully at a very high level in a huge number of different sporting pursuits. We sometimes forget how good we are at sports and how much that contributes to our influence around the world. As winning Lioness forward Chloe Kelly, right, said, she's "proud to be English" as should we all.

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Bend It Like Beckham, the film that two decades ago put Keira Knightley, left, on the map - and women's football on the big screen - is back with a sequel. Its date for release is 2027 to coincide with the FIFA Women's World Cup in Brazil. I don't want to jinx things but after winning the Euros at the weekend I have high hopes England will bring home the World Cup too.

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Rachel Reeves' new, post-tears fixed grin - like someone kidnapped and being paraded before the cameras - can't hide the ever-collapsing UK economy, which has fallen for the second consecutive month. It's time the Chancellor realised our only chance of growing the economy is to cut spending and to cut taxes.

This isn't something Labour MPs like to hear - but even they can see that the more she is taxing the less revenue she is raising. The latest example is capital gains tax - Labour put up the rate only to have revenue receipts go down.

Labour doesn't seem to understand that there is only so much tax people can give. If they don't change course soon, I fear what will be left of this country in four years' time.

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Headteachers of my local schools have been contacting me as they're increasingly concerned about how much the increase in employers' National Insurance contributions is costing them. They've told me that teachers and other staff will need to go as they - like all businesses - are desperately trying to find the money to pay this massive tax bill.

So, I decided to ask the Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, if she could tell me what will be the cost for schools of the increased employers' NICs. Embarrassingly she hadn't a clue - either that or she just didn't want to come clean.

She used to tell us that Labour was investing in state schools, by using the money from the VAT increase on private school fees, but Keir Starmer has now claimed that money is being used for housing. These Labour ministers have got the financial acumen of hopeless bailed-out bank Northern Rock.