The Daily T ‘Just deport them!’: Labour's £40k migrant madness
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Mar 5, 2026 
Jacob Rees-Mogg, Conservative politician and former Cabinet minister known for his media commentary, critiques Labour’s new immigration measures. He debates the £40,000 incentive, deportation vs incentives, and student visa suspensions. He also discusses Keir Starmer’s handling of Iran, alleged flip-flopping, and implications for UK foreign policy.
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Cash-for-Return Risks Creating Perverse Incentives
- Shabana Mahmood's £10,000 per person (capped at £40,000 per family) is meant to incentivise voluntary departures for refused asylum seekers.
- Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg argues this creates a market incentive for people to come, return for cash, and reattempt crossing, citing falling small-boat prices.
Choose Deportation Over Cash Incentives
- Avoid creating financial incentives that make illegal entry profitable; instead opt for direct removal of illegal entrants.
- Rees-Mogg recommends deportation as the clearer policy to stop re-entry rather than paying voluntary return sums.
Human Rights Law Is A Practical Obstacle To Removals
- Repealing the European Convention on Human Rights is flagged as necessary to close legal loopholes that hinder removals.
- Rees-Mogg says Mahmood 'wills the end but not ultimately the means', so legal constraints remain.