Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick has criticised politicians who welcome refugees rhetorically but then fail to share the burden caused by illegal immigration. Jenrick spoke at the centre-right Policy Exchange think-tank, defending the UK government’s Illegal Migration Bill and condemning opposition politicians and local authorities for virtue signalling at taxpayers’ expense. His comments appear to be aimed at the Labour-controlled Welsh government and the Scottish National Party (SNP), which governs Scotland in collaboration with the Scottish Greens. Jenrick accused the SNP administration in Scotland of failing to match its pro-immigration rhetoric with sufficient action, and criticised Welsh plans to include asylum seekers in its universal basic income scheme. He described the number of people willing and able to reach the UK today as “astronomical” and said the Illegal Migration Bill “goes further than ever before to sever the link between entering Britain illegally from a safe country like France and staying here to live and to work”.