Home Office finally admits staggering true cost of 'Boriswave' migrant flood

The Home Office has admitted how much a key part of the "Boriswave" migrant surge is really set to cost taxpayers.

Analysis by the department and its Migrant Advisory Committee (MAC) shows that 117,000 foreign care workers will receive settled status in Britain between now and 2030.

An additional 79,000 adult dependents are expected to settle alongside them.

This will cost the taxpayer more than £100,000 each over the course of a migrant's lifetime - an estimated £36,000 per foreign worker, and £67,000 per dependents.

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This could send the total cost to Britons' wallets skyrocketing to more than £9billion.

These figures only represent the care workers expected to remain in the UK out of a total of 612,666 visas issued on the controversial health and care route between 2022 and 2024.

A total of 1.6 million foreign workers rushed to Britain thanks to Boris Johnson's visa reforms in what has now been dubbed "Boriswave".

But last night, Mr Johnson claimed to GB News it was "total rubbish" that he allowed "millions to arrive legally through the front door".

He blustered: "When you look at what actually happened, when we came out of the EU, we took back full legal control, so the first year of my premiership we had the lowest immigration for 40 years.

"And then what actually happened was I'm afraid that the system believed the rubbish Remain propaganda that everybody had fled the UK."

Nigel Farage last September unveiled radical proposals to halt the "Boriswave" bedding in.

Speaking to GB News, the Reform UK leader warned Britain could not afford to provide health care and education for dependants of migrants.

Mr Farage announced his party would go as far as to abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) entirely.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has proposed to double the number of years a migrant must have been in Britain before applying for ILR.

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This, proponents say, would make it significantly harder for the "Boriswave" of migrants to stay in Britain forever.

But the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee has condemned this proposal in a new report.

The committee, chaired by Liberal Democrat peer Lord Foster, raged at how a change to the length of ILR would be "manifestly unfair" and "may be unlawful".

"The UK's reputation would be adversely impacted by retrospective action, which will likely make the UK a less attractive destination for highly skilled migrants in the future," the report added.

Ms Mahmood's proposals would raise the qualifying period for permanent settlement from five years to 10, a policy the Home Secretary says is inspired by Denmark.

More than 100 MPs, including former deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, have signed a letter opposing Ms Mahmood's plans.

Ms Rayner has even branded them "un-British".

Andy Burnham last year criticised the plans, claiming it would leave migrants in a "sense of limbo and unable to integrate".

He would later back Ms Mahmood's reforms during his campaign in Makerfield as he battled Reform UK and Restore Britain.

The Home Secretary is now expected to stay in her role if Mr Burnham becomes Prime Minister.

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