Consservative MP Neil O’Brien has declared he “doesn’t buy for a second” that Labour will “get tough” on immigration, as Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to address the crisis with a fresh admission.

Speaking to GB News, the member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston told GB News Breakfast that the Government’s proposed crackdown is “tough talk and no substance”.

Ms Mahmood is set to tell a summit of her international counterparts from the Balkans that failures on migration are eroding trust in politicians.

She is expected to say “failure to bring order to our borders is eroding trust not just in us as political leaders… but in the credibility of the state itself.”

Discussing Labour’s efforts to tackle the crisis, Mr O’Brien told GB News: “I don’t buy for a second the idea that the Government are going to get tough on immigration.

“We’ve already seen what they’ve done. The first thing they did was to get rid of our Rwanda deal, the deterrent to stop people from coming here illegally.”

He added: “Then they scrapped our plans to tighten up the family route, which allows people to come here and often not work.

“And we can see that they’re saying, unlike us, we would leave the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights), they want to stay in it.”

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Predicting that the Government will “do nothing” to leave the ECHR and tackle deportations, Mr O’Brien said: “The ECHR is the reason where we see all these absurd cases where dangerous foreign criminals are not deported because they claim human rights law.

“And the Government, led by human rights lawyer Keir Starmer, are never going to do anything about that because this is what they believe in.”

Criticising Labour policy further, Mr O’Brien stated: “I just don’t buy for a second the idea that the Government are going to get tough on immigration. It’s just tough talk and no substance.”

Outlining how the Conservatives would tackle the migration crisis, the shadow minister told GB News that Britain must “leave the ECHR” and begin mass deportations.

He explained: “Obviously the first step is that we have to leave the ECHR, and even people on the Labour side like Jack Straw and David Blunkett are now admitting it’s a massive problem and it’s stopping us from deporting dangerous foreign criminals, but that’s not the only thing we need to do.

“We set out our plans last week to deport 150,000 people a year and set up a new removals force with a doubling of the budget, so that we can get all these dangerous people who should not be here out of this country and do it quickly.”

He added: “And the other thing we’ve said is, look, if you come to this country illegally, if you get in a small boat, we’re not going to let you claim asylum, we’re not going to hear your claim, we’re not going to go through some seven-year long legal process. We are just going to deport you, as simple as that.

“We’re not going to allow you to claim asylum, we’re not going to put you into a legal process, we’re just going to get you out of this country. So don’t come here illegally, don’t get in a small boat, don’t bother because the UK is going to be closed to you.”