Grenfell Tower’s Haunting Wall That Held Trapped Victims’ Handprints Is Destroyed – Despite Families’ Plea

A wall that showed the handprints of Grenfell Tower victims who were trapped in the building as the fire raged has been destroyed.

Families of the 72 people who died in the 2017 fire in North Kensington, west London, made the unsettling discovery of the wall, between the 12th and 14th floors, during pre-demolition visits to the building in July last year.

A powerful photo of the stairwell shows the area totally blackened with smoke – and marked with prints of all different sizes.

The victims’ families had urged the Government to keep these parts of the building from being demolished. 

But they were preparing to take Housing Secretary Steve Reed to court over the demolition after claims that Angela Rayner promised the wall would not be destroyed when she ran the department. 

Relatives have said the Government went back on its promise.

The fierce fire ripped through the 24-storey social housing block in North Kensington, west London, on June 14, 2017, killing 72 people.

The tragedy sparked national outrage, as highly flammable exterior cladding was found to have caused the rapid spread of flames from an electrical fault.

The Grenfell Inquiry began in earnest in September 2017, with the final report issued in February 2025, before demolition began that September.

Another part of the tower has also been destroyed, on the stairwell between the 17th and 18th floor, where the words Allahu Akbar – which means ‘God is Greater’ – were written.  

An official said no sections above the ninth floor could be kept, citing concerns about the sensitivity of the upper levels and the lives lost.

Both the handprints and the inscription are located above this level.

The Arabic writing has already been destroyed – but grieving families are now fighting to preserve the handprints.

Damel Carayol, who lost members of his family in the fire, told The Telegraph: ‘The obvious thing is that these inscriptions and handprints are relics, reminiscent of hieroglyphics and remains from traumatic historical happenings.

‘The meanings and symbolisms of whoever made them would have been their last hopeful messages to the living world, as they felt for sure that their time had come. And these messages to us speak for everyone whose lives were taken at Grenfell.’

He added that the ‘disregard’ for the victims and their families was ‘inhumane’.

I’m not sure why anybody would want to preserve this – it feels rather macabre and creepy, but different people mourn in different ways.

It’s also time to rebuild because homes are desperately needed, so new homes should be built, but please, not another tower block for this to happen again – that would be a tragedy waiting to happen. What’s more, there should be a memorial nearby so that people don’t forget the disaster that did happen – it’s the least thing they could do for the people who died that day.

I wouldn’t say it’s ghoulish to keep a memory, far from it, because if it were thought of as ghoulish, then perhaps the Tower of London should be ripped down or Hampton Court Palace, although some might say that’s a ridiculous comparison.

A Boss Ordered To Pay Irish Bookkeeper £23,000

A boss who went viral after being ordered to pay more than £23,500 for repeatedly calling an Irish worker a ‘potato’ says he believed it was ‘workplace banter’ but admits he got it ‘badly wrong’.

Mick Atkins, 56, says he has been unable to sleep as his construction firm’s 24-hour hotline was bombarded with calls after a tribunal ruled he racially harassed bookkeeper Bernadette Hayes, and he has even been sent death threats.

He was ordered to pay Ms Hayes, who was born in Portadown, Northern Ireland, thousands in compensation after a tribunal ruled he had called her a ‘potato’, ‘Paddy’ and ‘pikey’.

Ms Hayes said the remarks left her feeling ‘small, insecure, violated and extremely anxious’, adding that she came to dread going into work at building contractor West Leeds Civils.

Now Mr Atkins says he wants to publicly apologise for what he had thought was harmless ‘playful banter’ and admitted the case had been a ‘hard lesson to learn’.

He said: ‘I genuinely thought it was workplace banter. I can see now I got that badly wrong.

‘What I thought was messing about was clearly not taken that way, and I am sorry for the distress it caused Bernie.

‘These were comments which I thought were just back-and-forth playful banter with someone I had worked with for two years and whom I considered to be a friend.’

Mr Atkins, a father-of-three from Bradford, West Yorkshire, said he had since been subjected to abusive messages and threats online.

He said: ‘I’ve been getting calls day and night from withheld numbers. I’ve had to delete my social media.

‘One woman screamed down the phone that I should hang my head in shame. Another asked me, “What are you playing at?”

‘There was one Irish guy who said, “Me and the boys are over next week – we’re going to pay you a visit.”

‘They’ve got hold of the company’s 24-hour phone number and have been ringing every ten minutes.

‘Some of the messages have been vile. I’ve had people calling me all sorts, and there have been threats made. It’s frightening, to be honest.

‘This is the first time in my life that I’m thinking of just wrapping up and calling it a day.

‘It’s been awful. I accept that I shouldn’t have said those things, but I don’t feel that I deserve to get death threats.

‘Even my daughter has been getting stick.

‘I know people may say that’s nothing compared to what Bernie went through, and maybe that’s fair, but it has made me take a hard look at myself.’

The tribunal heard Ms Hayes began working for the civil engineering contractor in 2021 as an office and finance manager.

This was undoubtedly innocuous repartee, but we are not allowed harmless joshing anymore – it’s all doom and gloom, although I must admit I would have been insulted being called a ‘pikey’, but clearly it was only meant in fun.

I myself would have been sentenced to death back in the day with my banter and wit. Now, if you want to have a little banter with the boys, you have to do it from home, not out in the public eye, because someone out there will undoubtedly say that you’ve insulted them and take you to court.

Banter is part of socialising, but socialising is a thing of the past now with all this woke stuff, and now all people see are pound signs and a chance to make some money.

But we must pause to take into account someone’s emotions. Before making any type of joke, I always consider my surroundings since, let’s be honest, not everyone has a sense of humour, and it can occasionally make the recipient feel unhappy or uneasy. What may be hilarious to one person may not be humorous to another.

There Has Been An Outbreak Of Meningitis

A meningitis outbreak said to be linked to a nightclub has killed two young people and left 11 others seriously ill.

The victims, who have not been named, are believed to be aged between 17 and 21.

One was identified as a sixth-form student at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in neighbouring Faversham, while the other was verified as a student at the University of Kent.

Most hospitalised patients are of the same age and are thought to be students at the school.

A friend of two people fighting the deadly infection – one of whom is in a coma – has told the Daily Mail they began to exhibit symptoms after going to Club Chemistry in Canterbury on Friday, March 6. 

With a capacity of 1,600 and three floors, student-favourite Club Chemistry is probably a hotbed for the deadly infection.

The woman revealed that her friends had attended the venue as part of a birthday celebration, but within days of the night out, several members of the group began to feel increasingly unwell.

She told the Daily Mail: ‘My pal went out for her birthday with her partner and a few friends. The plan was to go clubbing and have a nice time, as teenagers do.

‘She simply wanted a nice evening with her friends for her birthday, but after attending Club Chemistry, came out really ill in the coming days, which ended with some in hospital.’

The woman said her friend experienced meningitis symptoms such as paleness, sickness and tiredness before attending A&E this weekend, where a lumbar puncture procedure confirmed she had contracted meningitis.

She added another man who had gone to Club Chemistry is currently in a coma because of the infection, while one more was displaying symptoms.

It comes as more than 30,000 students and staff have been alerted by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), alerting them to remain vigilant against symptoms.

The UKHSA said it was arranging antibiotics for some students in the Canterbury area following the outbreak.

On Sunday, the university urged anyone who believes they have come into contact with those who have contracted meningitis and have not been contacted by the UKHSA to attend the Senate university building between 9 am and 4 pm on Monday.

Experts described the number and severity of cases as ‘very rare’ and ‘extremely concerning’.

Trevor Reid of charity Meningitis Now said: ‘This is not the type of level of cases we have heard of for many, many years.

‘It is very rare that we would see anything like this, and we are extremely concerned.’

Sadly, outbreaks of meningitis among university students are extremely common, and more literature about this on boards around the universities should be present with signs and symptoms.

Meningitis symptoms in students can include sudden high fever, stiff neck, severe headaches, nausea or vomiting, and confusion, and it requires immediate medical attention. It can also manifest sensitivity to light, drowsiness or trouble waking and sometimes a skin rash. By rolling a glass over the rash, if it doesn’t fade, then the odds are it is meningitis, and prompt medical attention is required.

When at the hospital, do not take no for an answer because meningitis is fatal if not treated accordingly.

This story should have been a frontline headliner.

If there is any possible chance that a person has meningitis, it needs to be contained extremely quickly and should be taken extremely seriously, not brushed aside, because meningitis can be contagious, depending on the cause, whether it is bacterial or viral. Viral forms are usually contagious.

Watchdog Rules Will Change How Millions Of UK Shoppers Pay At Tills Next Week

In a significant change to how you pay at the register, the contactless limit for card payments may soon be lifted.

The financial regulator confirmed it could “remove the £100 contactless limit” to allow customers “greater flexibility” when making payments. The contactless card payment limit has been extended several times over the years. It was raised to £20 in 2012, then to £30 in 2015, before going up to £100 in October 2021.

There is usually no limit to the number of contactless transactions you can make in a day; however, you may be requested to enter your PIN if you make a lot of purchases.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) confirmed it would be looking into contactless payments after the Government asked what steps the regulator could take to help support economic growth.

The FCA also confirmed it could soon ease mortgage rules to allow more first-time buyers to get on the property ladder. Under existing rules, lenders are limited in how many large mortgages they can approve. There is a cap that means no more than 15 per cent of a lender’s mortgage book can compromise loans for properties costing more than 4.5 times the buyer’s annual salary.

But this could soon be adjusted to allow people to borrow larger sums. This could be good for people on lower wages, provided they can afford their repayments.

Another change reportedly being considered is to affordability rules that test whether borrowers can still keep up with repayments if interest rates suddenly increase.

Rental payments may also soon be included as part of your borrowing, rather than focusing just on your income, reports The Times. Rightmove mortgage expert Matt Smith said: “It is really encouraging that the market regulators are now considering what a review of mortgage affordability could look like.

“Regulatory change is what we’ve been calling for, as that is what is needed to truly impact home-mover affordability, particularly for first-time buyers. We’ve seen some innovative products and schemes announced by lenders to try and do their bit to support home-buyers, but they need support from both the government and regulators to really drive more options for people.”

However, Richard Donnell, executive director of research at Zoopla, warned: “The big question is whether current rules go too far, but there is a risk for consumers and the government in how far this might go. Finding the balance is not easy and is compounded by the huge north-south divide in affordability.”

There are not many places now that take cash, unless it’s the smaller shops like hairdressers, barbershops and nail places. A lot of small cafes will not take cash either, but in larger stores, they won’t take anything but card transactions. At one time, cash was king, but now people are having to leave their items because the card machine was down, and I’ve seen people walk away sheepishly, looking rather mortified.

Is this a good idea? No, of course not, because crooks will love it when they’ve cloned or stolen your bank card with no spend limit on it. Thieves will be rubbing their hands together now.

A Champion Racehorse Is Killed And Served To Unwitting Diners At A Council-Run Soup Kitchen

A champion racehorse was destroyed and served to unwitting diners at a council-run soup kitchen, sparking public anger.

The four-year-old racehorse, called Smart Latch, had been retired with an injury but finished up being served at a soup kitchen in southern Turkey, in the Yenshir district in the Mersin province.

A resident discovered a strange object in his portion of kavurma – a traditional Turkish fried meat dish – while eating at the municipal soup kitchen last month, local media said on Thursday.

Agriculture ministry investigators found out that this was Smart Latch’s microchip – a thoroughbred mare which had won first-place finishes at the hippodrome in the nearby city of Adana and two other career wins.

The food the chip had been discovered in was examined on February 4, and investigators realised it was definitely horse meat on that day and the previous day’s batch of kavurma.

They destroyed 213 kilogrammes of kavurma made at the soup kitchen.

In Turkey, it is forbidden to kill horses for meat, particularly registered racehorses, which are usually rehomed or safeguarded.

Details only emerged this week after almost a month had gone by since the chip was discovered in the food.

The ministry said that the Mersin municipality soup kitchen had been ‘added to the list of unsafe products after testing showed it contained meat from a single-hoofed animal’ – a horse, donkey or mule.

‘We are in distress,’ owner of Smart Latch, Suat Topcu, said on Friday, adding that the horse had begun racing in 2024 but was retired after she broke her leg during her last race on October 14.

Throughout her short career, Smart Latch earned a sum of 1,125,000 Turkish Lira (£19,200) in prize money across her three victories.

Mr Topcu said he had arranged to have her donated to a riding club, using a local transporter he knew.

He said he did not know what had happened to Smart Latch until he was contacted by the agriculture ministry.

He was then fined 132,000 Turkish lira (£2,260) for not formally reporting the donation.

The racehorse owner said, ‘The fine is not important; what’s important is finding those who committed this cruelty.’

Investigators believe the horse ended up at the abattoir rather than the riding club.

They believe the horse’s meat was falsely labelled as ‘beef’ and then sold to the company that supplies the municipality’s soup kitchen.

Horsemeat can be sold legally, but pretending it’s beef is most definitely not permitted.

What it boils down to is this. People should know what they’re consuming. If they are okay with eating horse meat, then fantastic, but I believe that most people would not be okay with eating it. I would have no problem eating horse meat as long as it was destroyed humanely.

But this animal was deserving of better. Due to its injuries, the horse was retired and ought to have been transported to a sanctuary rather than a slaughterhouse, and besides, horse racing is cruel and unethical throughout.

Sadly, racehorse trainers care very little about their horses; it’s all about making money, and then they are put down when they are of very little use. Horse racing is cruel and should be prohibited, but it won’t happen because it’s a giant money-making enterprise.

A tranquil retirement is not a possibility for these animals, as they are a financial drain, so they are put down as soon as the publicity goes away, and I’m sure, in time, humans will go the same way.

A Stowaway Fox Is Taken In By New York Zoo After Travelling 3,000 Miles From The UK Aboard A Ship

A fox that survived a trip across the Atlantic on a vehicle transporter ship is being cared for in a zoo in New York.

A two-year-old male red fox was discovered by customs officers at the Port of New York and New Jersey on February 18, among the cargo of a vessel that had set sail from southern England two weeks prior.

Weighing about 11 pounds, he was taken in by the Bronx Zoo a day later, having ‘gone through a lot’, the zoo’s director of animal programmes said.

Keith Lovett added: ‘He seems to be settling in well.’ 

Cars were being transported across the Atlantic to the US East Coast on the ship that the fox had unintentionally boarded.

A long-term home for the mammal is expected to be found after he undergoes checks. But a spokeswoman for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which runs the zoo, said he appears in good health. 

A statement released by the zoo read: ‘The Bronx Zoo regularly works with officials to help rescue wildlife that is illegally trafficked through nearby ports and airports.

‘In this case, the Bronx Zoo was able to help with the stowaway red fox found aboard a vessel entering a local port.

‘The fox is currently in the Animal Health Centre at the Bronx Zoo, where it is under the care of the zoo’s animal and veterinary teams. Initial examinations indicate that the fox appears to be in good condition.

‘Veterinarians are awaiting results from additional routine health screening.

‘Once the veterinary team determines that the fox is healthy, the zoo will work with wildlife experts to identify an appropriate long-term home for the animal.’

The spokeswoman said that red foxes are among the ‘most widespread carnivorous mammals in the world’ and are found across Europe, Asia, North America and parts of Africa.

A spokesman for ABP Southampton said, ‘The Port of Southampton handles everything from cars to containers to cruises, but even we were surprised to find a fox had booked itself a Transatlantic crossing.

‘Clearly it fancied swapping the Solent for the Staten Island Ferry, though next time we’d recommend it considers the Queen Mary 2, which offers the Southampton to New York route with considerably more comfort.’

Even the fox wanted to flee Starmer’s authoritarian Britain. Undoubtedly, it had been taking tips from how illegals have been crossing into the UK, but I’d sooner have one uninvited fox arrive than the thousands of uninvited boat people that we get.

The Future Of Food Is 3D-Printed Chocolate And Foie Gras

They hardly sound like the dishes we might dream of, but it appears such dainties as laboratory-grown foie gras and 3D-printed chocolate are on the way.

And, according to a report, some could be in our shopping baskets as soon as 2035.

Foods grown from animal and plant cells in a lab include steak, chicken and duck foie gras – with two products already being risk-assessed by regulators.

Other random dishes could include palatable insects. 

Four species are now for sale under temporary agreements while their safety is evaluated. They can be sold as whole insects or used as additives, such as powders added to well-known meals.

The report from the Food Standards Agency said allergen proteins in crustaceans can also be found in insects, which means people with a shellfish allergy could have a similar reaction to eating bug products.

The FSA also looked at ‘largely conceptual innovations’ such as 3D-printed foods, which would allow manufacturers to build foods such as chocolate or mashed potato out of layering edible ingredients from a printer – though these are not expected to reach a broad market in the next five to ten years.

The report said that the new technologies could help create personalised foods, for example, for people who have difficulty swallowing.

Dr Thomas Vincent, of the FSA, said: ‘The food system is always evolving, and as a regulator, we need to keep pace.’

This is just ‘Frankenstein’ food, along with plastic cheese and plastic sausages.

Cadbury’s chocolate used to be my favourite, but nowadays it tastes like a chunk of wax, and this is just the start of things to come. Eventually, there will be no farms, and nothing will be home-produced.

I thought we were trying to get away from ultra-processed foods – this doesn’t get any more artificial! Our food should be the real deal, or no deal.

All food should be naturally produced or bred, and all this processed slime should be removed from the food chain.

I wonder if there’s any possibility it could print a useful Prime Minister for the UK?

To be fair, I’d rather pierce hot needles in my eyeballs than eat foie gras, lab-grown or otherwise, and of course, this sort of food will be for the bottom feeders, not the ones at the top who will eat normal, healthy food.

At The Age Of Ten, Natascha Kampusch Was Abducted And Held As A Sex Slave For Eight Years

The family of former captive Natascha Kampusch have disclosed she is ‘in her own world’ as she suffers from serious health problems which have left doctors ‘overwhelmed’.

Natascha, 38, was abducted aged 10 in 1998 by Wolfgang Přiklopil while walking to school in Austria and held captive in a hidden basement cell in his home for eight years.

She was beaten, starved and turned into his sex slave before fleeing in August 2006.

Přiklopil, a technician in his 30s at the time who lived in his mother’s house, jumped in front of a train at a nearby station after discovering she had escaped.

Natascha wrote a book about her kidnapping, was the subject of a film and even presented her own TV talkshow in the years afterwards.

But her family have tragically disclosed she now seems to be ‘in a kind of prison again’ as her 20th anniversary of freedom beckons.

In a new documentary, produced by Austria’s public broadcaster ORF, her sister Claudia Nestelberger reveals she is ‘completely gone’.

She said: ‘Everyone knows how Natascha used to speak in front of the camera. That’s completely gone now.

‘She’s mostly in her own world. She’s in a kind of prison again. It’s heartbreaking, and we feel helpless.’ 

In 2023, Natascha admitted she was ‘positive and hopeful’ about her future prospects.

She was creating her own jewellery collection and was involved in building a hospital in Sri Lanka.

‘I spend a lot of time in nature and with my horse,’ she said.

Previously describing her time in captivity, Natascha said she was kept in a trapdoor in a garage which was just five by five metres, soundproofed and windowless.

She was beaten ‘up to 200 times a week’, chained to a bed at night and made to clean while half-naked.

She said from age 12 she imagined breaking out but regressed ‘to the age of a dependent toddler,’ asking to be tucked in and read bedtime stories.

Walking to school by herself on March 2, 1998, Natascha remembered how she noticed a strange Priklopil waiting by his white minivan.

‘I thought I don’t want to pass him,’ she said. ‘I thought, “That’s strange, why is this person waiting there?” It didn’t make sense.

‘That’s when I wanted to switch to the other side of the road just to be safe. But then I thought, “No, I have to do this”, so you can say, “Okay, you had the courage to walk past him.”

However, as she went past him, Priklopil grabbed her and put her in the back of the vehicle before taking her to his home, where he kept her in a dungeon under the floor of his garage. 

When she became a teenager, Priklopil would sometimes keep her upstairs with him to sleep, but would tie her to the bed so she couldn’t escape.

‘He seemed to think it was his right to control me and use violence,’ said Natascha, who suggested her captor at this point imagined they were husband and wife.

She was warned by her kidnapper that there was no way out of her ordeal, with Priklopil saying he would kill her if she ever tried to escape.

Her mother, Brigitta Sirny, was originally accused of killing her child and admitted she ‘wanted to end it all’ after the allegations.

Brigitta previously said: ‘(A) private investigator said I killed her and threw her in the lake. That made me even more upset. It was very hard to go through all that. I stood outside on the balcony, and I wanted to jump.

‘I wanted to end it all. Thank God I went back inside. But then I didn’t go on the balcony for three months. It caused very deep wounds.’ 

What the poor girl had to go through and the absolute fear she endured for many years, and even now, her life will never be normal, and even her mother was a victim as well.

Any trauma can mess a person’s life up. One can seem to turn their life around, and then out of nowhere, you can take a thousand steps back. Just one minuscule trigger and you are back to where you started. There is no cure; it’s with you for life, it’s just hoping that you have more good days than bad days.

Nobody else who has not gone through what this poor woman went through can ever imagine an ordeal like this – the brain doesn’t function to these depths of depravity.

Natascha and her family were dealt a harsh hand. They must have been outraged, especially when this monster believed he had the right to simply choose a child off the street and subject them to such abuse.

The Fears Surrounding Harvey

Katie Price worries her son Harvey will ‘end up dying of a heart attack’ if he doesn’t lose weight soon.

The star’s eldest son, 23, has Prader-Willi syndrome, which sparks a persistent urge to eat food and an enduring sense of hunger, which leads to obesity.

He also battles a string of debilitating conditions, including autism, septo-optic dysplasia, ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder.

In April 2025, his weight had reached nearly 30 stone before modifications to his diet helped him lose 1.5 stone.

Last year, Katie said she had a plan with Harvey’s medical team to put him on the weight loss jab Mounjaro, but in an update, the mum expressed her frustrations that he still hasn’t been prescribed it.

‘I’ve been on the case to doctors about putting him on the Mounjaro,’ she explained to her sister Sophie on the latest episode of their podcast The Katie Price Show.

Katie said she was going to resort to asking any doctors among her Instagram followers for help.

‘I’m actually going to put something up on Instagram to say, is there any private doctors out there? Because the NHS are so much… I’m not slagging the NHS off, but they know he’s in the obese category.’

‘When he sleeps, I worry because he’s snoring and wheezing. And then sometimes he holds his breath, and I’m like, he’s massive. He’s just getting bigger, and he’ll end up dying of a heart attack.’ 

‘They’ve already told me years ago that if he don’t lose weight, he’s prone to a heart attack.’

Katie added that she ‘just feels so bad’ and said she was determined to help but pointed out: ‘I’m not going to inject him myself because that’s not medically right to do for him, but something needs to be done. He’s just huge.’

In November, Katie said doctors were keen for Harvey to be put on a new weight loss drug ‘in the new year’ after it had completed clinical trials, but added that ‘if he goes on Mounjaro first and then goes onto this new one, it will work a lot quicker’. 

At the time, she explained that ‘the reason he hasn’t started Mounjaro yet is because they were trying to get him to lose weight through his diet, to try all avenues’.

In the most recent episode of her podcast, Katie also updated her listeners on Harvey’s living circumstances.

This woman can afford to buy Mounjaro, so I’m not sure why she isn’t. Also, it sounds like Harvey has sleep apnea, so why does he not have a sleep apnea machine?

If she stopped all her surgeries, holidays, cars and men, then she could afford to buy Mounjaro, and get him in to see a private doctor.

Sadly, Prader-Willi syndrome is complex, and one of the symptoms is an insatiable appetite, and it’s like they are a constant dustbin.

The life expectancy for people with Prader-Willi syndrome can vary greatly based on various factors, but the median age of death for those with PWS is about 30 years old. However, some have lived longer.

A Fifth Of The UK’s Aid Budget Is Spent On Housing Migrants

A fifth of the UK aid budget is spent on housing migrants in the UK, the aid watchdog has said in a report.

Using funds meant to help those overseas on those in the UK poses a ‘serious risk to value for money’, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) warned.

It said that in 2024, £2.8 billion was spent on hosting migrants and asylum seekers – £1 billion more than on humanitarian aid, despite crises in Gaza and Sudan.

Aid spending is expected to fall from 0.5 per cent of UK gross national income (GDP) to 0.3 per cent from 2027, with the saved money redirected to defence.

Spending on foreign aid has long been plagued by accusations of waste and fraud, as well as claims that it has aided terrorist organisations.

The report found that setting a figure for aid spending as a proportion of GDP and including asylum costs ‘undermined value for money’.

It warned that any rise in spending on the unpredictable cost of hosting migrants meant funding would automatically be taken from overseas spending.

It also said that the Home Office’s ability to charge an uncapped amount of spending on migrants had ‘not encouraged long-term planning to secure improvements in value for money.’

This means that the UK’s spending on housing migrants is ‘double or triple’ that of other comparable countries, and the highest cost per head, it said.

In 2023, when spending on migrants peaked at 28 per cent of the total aid budget, the report said that this represented a ‘perverse outcome’ for overseas aid.

It has called for the two to be separated due to the demand-driven nature of support for migrants.

International aid regulations allow certain expenses, such as lodging, food, medical care, and children’s education, to be deducted from aid expenditures during a migrant’s first year in the UK.

But the report found that these costs have increased dramatically in recent years, largely due to a steep rise in the costs per head of support.

Increased arrivals of migrants – including Afghans following the Taliban resurgence and Ukrainians following Russia’s invasion – added to a backlog of undecided asylum claims, it said.

A lack of accommodation has meant the Home Office has needed to house migrants in costly rented hotels.

It said that based on Government figures in the 2025 Spending Review, it expects spending on migrants to continue to take a fifth of the aid budget.

Our government has destroyed our once beautiful and thriving country.

We are told that we are lacking in housing, but we’re not. What we do have is a glut of foreign migrants, with more crossing the Channel every day.

Nearly every other country in the world deports illegal migrants, but for some reason, Starmer finds it incomprehensible. Human Rights are extremely profitable, and our government needs to keep that money flowing by rolling out the red carpet to migrants.

Migrants speak of the very nice life they have been given at expensive 4-star hotels, which are being paid for by you, the taxpayer.

Migrants staying at an exclusive four-star hotel close to Heathrow Airport have spoken of being housed in ‘very nice’ accommodation.

The Crowne Plaza, London Heathrow off the M4 motorway in West Drayton, Middlesex, boasts 465 rooms, a swimming pool and gym, but instead of paying guests, the hotel is being used to accommodate hundreds of asylum seekers, despite our Labour Government’s promise to end the use of hotels for migrants.

And in the meantime, while our elderly die on hospital gurneys in corridors, migrants are getting everything they want. It now appears that our Government despise its British people.

No money should be spent by our government unless it is for UK citizens who were born in the United Kingdom, because it’s disgraceful that our government prioritises those who have no right to be here over those who do have a right.

Of course, there is an ulterior motive. Labour for votes!

In my opinion, there should be no aid budget when our pensioners can’t even heat their homes, and a lot of families can’t afford to feed their children, or afford winter coats for them. We should not be supporting other countries that have never put a penny into the system when our own go without.

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