Cooper: Govt ramping up rhetoric not tackling refugee system
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has accused the Conservatives of "ramping up the rhetoric" instead of tackling the refugee system and its "failing plan". Report by Alibhaiz. 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 Clearly the wrong language to use and what the Conservatives are doing is ramping up
00:04 the rhetoric rather than actually tackling the problems.
00:07 And they're ramping up the rhetoric because they want to distract from the fact that their
00:11 plan is failing and in fact the chaos is getting worse.
00:16 Instead of all the rhetoric or the gimmicks, what they need to do is to get a grip, go
00:20 after the criminal gangs, clear the backlog in the asylum system, to actually get back
00:25 to basics and make things work again rather than just looking for somebody else to blame.
00:31 If you try and pull out of international conventions, you end up making it harder to get the international
00:36 agreements and the international cooperation that we need that actually helps us prevent
00:42 dangerous boat crossings, that helps us prevent the criminal gangs, that helps us tackle the
00:46 asylum problems in the first place.