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News. and you can find out more about the upcoming local elections in denbighshire county council on fifth may including information on how to vote, and who your local candidates are, by going to the council website denbighshire.gov.uk martin, i see you have got your coat on. i hope it warms up later. i hope it warms up later. and we ll be live across the uk in the coming weeks with special coverage of the election campaigns. forfull details of the elections in your area go to the bbc news website. in the politics section you can enter your postcode and get all the details. that s all at bbc.co.uk/ news. we are expecting the prime minister to make a speech on the action the uk government is taking to address migration and small boat crossings ....
Persecution. my great grandfather came from turkey where he came to the uk. when you look back over the centuries, as people have come seeking refuge or simply in search of somewhere to build a better life, you see that this is the very stuff of history is made from the french to the jewish of history is made from the french to thejewish refugees, from russia, to thejewish refugees, from russia, to thejewish refugees, from russia, to the docking of the empire windrush, to the south asians fleeing east africa. to the many, many others who have come from different countries at different times, for different reasons. all have wanted to be here because our united kingdom is a beacon of openness and generosity. and all in turn have contributed magnificently to the amazing story of the uk. today, that proud history of the uk. today, that proud history of safe and migration is ultimately ....
This year has already seen 4,578 arrivals and looks set to be a new record. sending asylum seekers to rwanda, however, is likely to prove hugely controversial. this is a despicable policy, quite frankly. one that we know how awful it is in all of its guises because we can see what happened in australia. it costs huge sums of money to do a huge amount of cruelty to a very few people and with no ultimate impact on the fact that people need to flee. in a speech later this morning, the prime minister will say that outsourcing parts of the asylum system to rwanda will help break the business model of the people traffickers exploiting those seeking a better life in the uk. just as brexit allowed us to take back control of legal migration, he will say, the government is now determined to take back control of illegal migration. ....
Smugglers are abusing the vulnerable and turning the channel into a watery grave yard with men, women and children drowning in unseaworthy boats and suffocating in refrigerated lorries. even if they do make it here, we know only too well some of the horrendous stories of exploitation over the years from east london to the cockle beds of morecambe bay as illegal migration makes people more vulnerable to the abuse of ruthless gangs. we must hold this appalling trade and defeat the public smugglers. that is why we are passing the nationality and border spill which allows us, for the first time to distinguish between people coming here and illegally. and for this distinction to affect how your asylum claim ....
Will be hard and we can expect many challenges and many obstacles to be thrown up against this plan, i believe this plan is the right way forward. because the people smugglers must be stopped in order to save countless lives and because tackling illegal migration is precisely the way to sustain a safe, legal and generous offer of sanctuary to those in need. that is in the best traditions of this country and the values we stand for in the world. thank you all very much indeed. i am now going to go to the media for some questions. going to nick eardley of the bbc. is the plan to send asylum seekers to rwanda a genuine answer? a ....