Channel migrants recently arrived in Britain have said a Labour government 'will be very good for us' after leaving France over fears of a win for the far-right. 

The Mail first interviewed Sudanese national Omer, 23, in a Calais camp a week ago and he is now living at a Home Office hotel in the port city of Hull, east Yorkshire.

Fearing victory for Marine Le Pen's National Rally Party and hoping for Sir Keir Starmer's Labour to triumph, he and four friends paid a smuggling gang to bring them on a boat to Dover on Sunday.

'The Labour government will be very good for us,' said Omer after arriving at his hotel today as the polls opened in the UK.

'I hope the Labour party wins. I am very happy I left France because the far-right party is close to victory.'

The Mail first interviewed Sudanese national Omer, 23, in a Calais camp a week ago and he is now living at a Home Office hotel in the port city of Hull, east Yorkshire. File photo 

The National Rally, which won the first round of French elections last Sunday, is well known for its anti-immigration stance. 

Omer had waited a year for a boat and told the Mail he had no money for the £3000-a-head fare to pay the smugglers. 

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In desperation at the unfolding political situation in France, he made the decision to move quickly.

He now owes the smugglers money for his clandestine trip.

He travelled with four friends, also in their 20s and from Sudan, who have now been placed in Home Office accommodation in Liverpool. 

He said: 'I wanted to stay with them and go to Liverpool but the Home Office said I must come to Hull. It is a city I have never heard of.'

Labour leader Sir Keir has already said that his party's immigration policy will include the scrapping of the Tories' flagship Rwanda scheme to deport illegal migrants to the African country for processing.

Although other Sudanese migrants the Mail met in Calais said they had no idea what the word election means and did not recognise Sir Keir's face when showed the Labour leader's photo, it is clear that Omer and his friends were aware of the swiftly changing political scene on both sides of the Channel.

'I had waited a year. I had to come now,' he said.

Omer says he has no family in the UK, but has friends.

He added: 'My big problem now is how I keep in touch with the others who have been put in Liverpool. I want to see them.'

Earlier this week James Cleverly last night branded Labour’s immigration plans a ‘con job’ which will make the UK ‘the destination of choice for illegal migrants in Europe’.

The Home Secretary acknowledged that some traditional Tory supporters want to ‘tell us off’ about immigration, but warned those voters considering voting Reform they risk getting the opposite of what they want.

In an interview with the Mail, he said Labour’s decision to scrap the Rwanda deportation scheme would have disastrous consequences for the migrant crisis - and leave Sir Keir Starmer with ‘no option’ but to give an amnesty to tens of thousands who have crossed the Channel illegally.

Sir Keir has vowed to scrap the government’s flagship plan to deport Channel migrants to Rwanda, describing it as a ‘gimmick’.

Mr Cleverly said the Rwanda scheme was ‘already working’ to deter some migrants from travelling to the UK, even though no flights have taken off. And he said Labour had no alternative deterrent to offer, making the UK a potential magnet for those seeking a new life abroad.