Labour: Stop offering 'gimmicks' to tackle small boats

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The government must stop offering “gimmicks” to properly tackle smuggling gangs and people traffickers, Yvette Cooper has said. This comes amid reports that the Home Office has procured tents to house migrants ahead of an expected surge in small-boat arrivals.
Labour is calling for a new serious and organised crime strategy to replace the current 2018 plan, which the party said was out of date. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 even the government doesn't believe
00:02 that their new legislation is going to work
00:04 and they're still in the same chaotic situation
00:08 as we were last year.
00:09 What we need is proper action to go after the criminal gangs.
00:13 That's what Labour is calling for
00:14 with a new cross-border unit
00:16 because convictions have fallen
00:18 and also actually to clear the asylum backlog
00:21 because their asylum decision-making has collapsed as well.
00:24 I think Rishi Soon Act strategy isn't working.
00:27 They just keep putting forward gimmicks
00:29 when actually what we need is proper grip.
00:32 We don't know the details of the government's proposals
00:34 and to be honest, they've announced
00:36 lots and lots of different things
00:38 that then haven't materialised
00:40 and it's all been hugely chaotic
00:42 because I think they're still just not getting
00:43 to the heart of the problem.
00:45 That criminal gangs have taken hold
00:47 undermining our border security and putting lives at risk
00:50 and yet convictions for people smuggling have plummeted.
00:53 We've got to have proper action against those gangs
00:56 and there's got to be action to clear the asylum backlog
00:59 to end hotel use so that you have proper
01:01 asylum accommodation without needing
01:04 all of the additional hotels
01:06 and all the problems that that has caused.

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