Andy Burnham under fire for brushing off illegal migration issue in UK

News24 Contributor Sophie Elsworth flags the risk of illegal votes flowing into the UK while discussing Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage declaring a “national security emergency”. “It’s not a hot topic for the new prime minister, Andy Burnham, he’s trying to really avoid this issue since he came into office a couple months ago,” Ms Elsworth told News24 host Chris Kenny. “When you look at the papers every day, this issue is very much alive, and people are very concerned about it. “We know those illegal votes keep sailing across the channel, so this is an issue that is not going away.