A crackdown has been launched on illegal working across the country, with the number of raids on premises soaring 77 per cent.

Amid pressure to get to grips with the migrant crisis, the Government has announced it has deported 50,000 people working in the UK illegally since coming to power in 2024.

Accelerated enforcement has lead to the highest level of action on illegal working in British history.

As a result, there has been a huge 83 per cent increase in arrests from July 2024 to December 2025.

This translated into 12,300 arrests from 14,400 enforcement raids on crooked businesses employing illegal labour.

The Government have also clamped down on foreign national offenders amid a public outcry over the issue.

Home Office Immigration Enforcement teams have removed 5,430 foreign national offenders over the past year.

This represented a 12 per cent increase over the same period 12 months prior, contributing to the overall deportation figure of 50,000 since Summer 2024.

Regarding asylum, the number of people waiting for initial decisions was reduced by 39 per cent.

This translated to a doubling of decisions on whether migrants can claim asylum, amounting to 31,000 in initial determinations.

However, it is unclear what the ratio of approved to disapproved claims is.

To that end, the Government has attempted to act on its pledge to end the use of costly migrant hotels.

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At its peak, 400 hotels were filled with asylum seekers across the country, costing the taxpayer £9 million a day.

This has now been reduced to 200, cutting asylum costs by 15 per cent or over half a billion a year.

Efforts have also been made to recoup cash handed out for asylum accommodation contracts, so far recollecting £74 million.

“The UK public deserves to know facts and the truth about the Government’s efforts to tackle illegal migration,” a Whitehall source stressed.

To that end, the Government will launch a TikTok account called Secure Borders UK to prevent “people being exploited by fake news superspreaders”.

“It will also act as a channel to show those paying people smugglers that you will be caught if you come to the UK illegally, and deported,” the source stated.

The new TikTok account’s content promises to feature footage of foreign criminals and illegal migrants being detained and deported.

As well as hoping to convince British voters of the Government’s action on migration, the account is pitched as helping discourage illegal migration.

The Government is banking on the hard-hitting videos debunking myths spread by people smugglers to convince people to take the treacherous journey to the UK.

It will also work in tandem with a campaign from the French Government to slash Channel Crossings.

Some communities in the UK with close ties to those likely to attempt to break into the UK will also be targeted with information about the dangers of reaching their family and friends overseas.

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