Allison Pearson

The asylum system is a giant con trick on the public. Illegal migrants from Afghanistan and Eritrea cannot be rejected. If any appeal is refused applicants make “further submissions” which take years. Known sex offenders are granted asylum.

People have asked what Reform’s no tax on overtime means for the Armed Forces Reserves. You won’t pay *any tax* on time served in the Reserves, where it’s on top of a full time day job. This will be a huge boost to recruitment. Thank you to those serving in the Reserves 🇬🇧

I am under attack for saying Labour’s claims about getting immigration under control are fake. Because they are fake. The situation is horrendous, much worse than people know. Hundreds of thousands of rejected illegal migrants are still here. Deportations are a tiny fraction.

@stimpson42911 @peppernc_nc @ukhomeoffice They are total lies. Crossings are not down! Over 70,000 illegal migrants have landed since Starmer became PM. Only a tiny proportion of asylum rejects leave the UK.

@AllisonPearson @peppernc_nc @ukhomeoffice Boat crossings down almost 50% compared to last year Asylum claims being rejected at record levels Deportations highest in decades Allison claims these are lies. “Fact”

The Government is definitely up to something. Asylum caseworkers tell me they are awaiting large numbers of cases but hardly any are coming through. Where are they? Where are you hiding them - and why? @ukhomeoffice Misusing official data to mask terrible failure.

"Well Josh, did your Mum happen to mention that she'll be able to save £1.64 on the family entry to Legoland during the summer"? "Yes Mr Starmer, and she asked me pass on her thanks. She told me to tell you she plans to take us twice in the holidays. That way she'll save over £3 which will be enough to buy a can of coke for us all to share". "That's marvellous Josh. I'm happy to help".

Andy Burnham says Britain must break free of the bond markets. But without a credible plan for growth, investment and spending restraint, the UK will end up even more in hock to those markets. Excellent from Juliet Samuel:- comment.press/bondsburnham

More British young people leaving with every year that passes. And this is meant to be declared a national migration policy success. Chart via Deutsche Bank

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@redrumlisa Totally agree. We cannot complete #HS2 in a sensible timeframe Scotland can no longer build ferries. We cannot make virgin Steel in Wales. @RoyalNavy stuck in port. The @rafredarrows have engine problems. We have not built reservoirs et al @Conservatives @UKLabour @DrChrisParry

Deindustrialisation and the continued wilful ignorance by every group of politician for 40 years to pretend that a service industry & financialization of our economy could replace our big heavy industries & industrial heartlands has come to an end. We are a broken divided & diminished country. Unless we have an economic plan of reindustrialising the country I fear that our decline will be permanent & divisions dystopian

If rape at knifepoint and filming it does not cross the custody threshold, what the hell does? You do not rehabilitate a child by teaching them rape is not serious enough for custody. You embolden them.

Well - the PM's responded x.com/keir_starmer/s…

The right to criticise a religion is part of British culture Criticism of Islam is Islamoscepticism, not Islamophobia Phobias are irrational fears, like arachnophobia- the fear of spiders Or in the case of Islam, fear of dogs and pigs Calling scepticism (or criticism) a phobia is a misuse of the English language An infidel's fear of being beheaded is not irrational

I investigated BBC capture by trans activists. It was worse than I thought thetimes.com/article/817e15…

The BBC’s failure to cover the GIDS scandal has been a serious dereliction of its public duty. After resigning as a governor of the Tavistock, I was involved behind the scenes in the 2019 Panorama programme on GIDS. The producer warned me I might be disappointed the programme would expose only one part of the scandal, not the whole story. That warning told me everything I needed to know about the BBC’s problem with impartiality on this issue. When Sue Evans and Keira Bell won the first judicial review, there was no serious follow-up from the BBC News, Woman’s Hour, or other major outlets. Nor was there adequate coverage of one of the most important findings of the Cass Review: the poor quality of the evidence base behind medical interventions for children and adolescents with gender distress. Instead, the BBC repeatedly broadcast positive stories about transition while failing to investigate the harms, uncertainties, and institutional failures surrounding this field. Sue and I have seen some of the casualties. Parents have been badly let down by professional bodies that lacked the courage or independence to challenge the affirmative model none of which received the scrutiny a public broadcaster exists to provide. With honourable exceptions in Newsnight and the Today programme, the BBC has failed young people, failed parents, and failed in its most basic public duty.

Hmm … The raw data says 312,000 people have applied for settled status. The figure doesn’t include the spouses and dependants who could qualify to join them when settlement is approved. The actual number of people connected to these applications could be over 750,000! all will be eligible to be supported by hard working British tax payers. Brilliant.

Tell me what chance we stand if this is what it takes to deport ONE man who has committed multiple sex attacks. “OSB” is an illegal migrant from Nigeria whose crimes are: 1. Dragging a 16 year old girl into an alleyway, forcing her to the ground, pulling down her trousers and knickers…and then a passerby intervened. 2. Just two days later, attacking a woman from behind on the street at night, pulling down her jogging bottoms. She grabbed a glass bottle to defend herself and managed to escape. 3. Just 20 minutes later, he attacked another woman, dragging her into an alleyway. She managed to escape and ran away screaming in terror. 4. In 2023, he was sent back to hospital after brandishing a knife in the accommodation that the taxpayer pays for on his behalf. The Home Office tried to deport him 9 years ago, in 2017. This has been blocked by lawyers and human rights advocates for the last 9 years. Apparently OSB has paranoid schizophrenia and takes medication for it. The human rights people have argued that if he is sent back to Nigeria and stops taking his medication then he might be punished. This is the most farcical process. Now, at last, he is being deported to Nigeria. Imagine how much this has cost in legal fees. Never mind the cost to the women assaulted by him.

More than 312,000 refugees, migrant workers and their dependants applied for citizenship in the year to this March – the highest number on record and double the rate of eight years ago Read how migrants are rushing to apply for British citizenship in record numbers to avoid future restrictions on settlement rights planned by the Labour Government 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/2…

We're seeing huge numbers of people being punished for criticising Islam or Muslim cultural practices at @SpeechUnion. This is the number of new such requests for help we get each month. Look what happens after Starmer comes to power. It's a 4x increase. And that was before the new 'anti-Muslim hostility' definition.

Danny Kruger is right - we need to change how Britain is governed, not just the government. Britain is in a dire condition. Three decades of dismal governance have brought us close to ruin. We've changed governments and prime ministers. The policies that landed us here remain the same. Why? Because the system of government behind those we elect is dysfunctional. This is why Kruger's plan matters. His paper, Fixing the Centre, sets out how. Abolish the Cabinet Office. Replace it with an Office of the Prime Minister, run by a political Chief of Staff. Empower ministers to hire and fire. Scrap most quangos. Run government on charter letters, Australian-style. I argued for precisely this in the Telegraph last March. It drew on a longer paper I wrote with Rado Tylercote — which set out the architecture in detail. A Chief of Staff at the helm. A Civil Service Unit. Budget allocation taken from the Treasury. An Appointments Unit for the quangocracy. Charter letters to each Secretary of State. Specific amendments to the CRAG Act 2010. The irony? That paper was presented to Team Boris shortly after he became PM. I guess the urgent squeezed out the important and nothing was done. The parallels between Kruger's plan and our blueprint are striking. Eight key proposals in Kruger's plan track, almost point for point, the architecture set out in our blueprint. Danny has done something important. He has taken these ideas and turned them into a transformative programme for an incoming government. Britain cannot recover without this.