Illegal immigration costs the British taxpayer at least £14 billion per year in public services, alone, posing an “existential” risk to the country, draining badly needed and limited resources, a former government minister has said.
Dame Andrea Jenkyns, the Deputy Chairwoman of the European Research Group (ERG) and former Minister of State for Skills under short-termed PM Liz Truss, told fellow MPs this week that, according to official statistics, each illegal migrant costs the taxpayer on average £12,000 per year in public services. With an estimated 1.2 million illegals living in the country, the cost in services alone is upwards of £14.4 billion, Dame Andrea calculated.
The former government minister and leading critic of neo-liberal Prime Minister Rishi Sunak noted that the money spent on illegals was nearly 10 per cent of the entire annual budget for the National…
