Here. there are plenty of safe passageways. this country has got a very, very proud record of welcoming refugees and asylum seekers, hundreds of years, in the last century we have had hungarians fleeing soviet union, we have syrians, afghans, so there is a way for people to come here if they are seeking refuge. we must tackle these criminal gangs. seeking refuge. we must tackle these criminal gangs- criminal gangs. nickie aiken, thank ou ve criminal gangs. nickie aiken, thank you very much. criminal gangs. nickie aiken, thank you very much, conservative - criminal gangs. nickie aiken, thank l you very much, conservative member of parliament. we can also get labour s point of view, shadow home secretary yvette cooper joins labour s point of view, shadow home secretary yvette cooperjoins us now. more money with the french authorities. do you welcome that? the prime minister has had today, this is going to help bring the numbers down and that he is getting a grip on illegal migration.
Millions of pounds out of human misery every year, and we have got to stop it, and as i said, today is another step forward, but it is not good be resolved overnight, it is going to take working with partners not going to be resolved overnight. ensuring we do break these criminal gangs once and for all. ., these criminal gangs once and for all. ., , , these criminal gangs once and for all. ., ., , . all. you say it is organised crime, but surely all. you say it is organised crime, but surely it all. you say it is organised crime, but surely it is all. you say it is organised crime, but surely it is also all. you say it is organised crime, but surely it is also organised - but surely it is also organised chaos, isn t it, to have more than 100,000 asylum seekers still waiting 100 , 000 asylum seekers still waiting to 100,000 asylum seekers still waiting to have their claims processed? yet. to have their claims processed? yet, because we to have their claims processed? yet,
Agreement doesn t get us to where we need to be to tackle this urgent and serious small boats crisis. labour leader sir keir starmer said the government needs to tackle the people smugglers, the source of the problem. most people will look at this and say, look, there is more taxpayers cash being spent on the problem of the government s own making. this has been going on a very long time and the home secretary has said the system is broken. she is right about that. they broke it. this is a step in the right direction, but there is so much more that needs to be done. for their part, the french authorities say they have managed to prevent 30,000 small boat journeys in the channel this year, but the challenge in patrolling hundreds of miles of coastline is immense. richard galpin, bbc news. this afternoon, the home secretary addressed the house of commons. mr speaker, of course we need to go further and faster in the fight against illegal migration,
Good enough. so what is labour s big idea for stopping this number- good enough. so what is labour s big idea for stopping this number of, - idea for stopping this number of, this level of migrants coming across the channel in small boats, a record number, we have heard already, more than 40,000 this year? what would you do where you empower today? the first you do where you empower today? tue: first thing you do where you empower today? tte: first thing we you do where you empower today? tte: first thing we would you do where you empower today? t te: first thing we would do you do where you empower today? tte: first thing we would do is significantly increased the national crime agency resources and we would do that by stopping wasting money on the failing rwanda plan, where the government has already spent £140 million on something even the home secretary says is failing and actually risked making trafficking worse. you have got to target the gangs and get some actual prosecutions