Rishi Sunak says migrants threaten to ‘overwhelm’ UK

Rishi Sunak has warned migrants threaten to “overwhelm” countries including the UK unless radical action is taken – as he vowed to push for reforms to the global rules on refugees.

The prime minister also said that failing to tackle illegal migration would “destroy the public’s faith” in politicians and “our very systems of government” during a conference organised by the far-right Italian leader Giorgia Meloni.

In his speech in Rome, he warned that “enemy” states were deliberately “driving people to our shores to try and destabilise our societies”.

And he invoked