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with turkey, returns agreement with places like albania and crossings on the channel down by a third. we have action taking hundreds of people arrested who have been part of a legal all involved in trafficking here in the uk as well. this is the next step on that, this will be the top is legislation that has ever been brought forward by a british government to tackle illegal immigration and that is what we are really focusing on today top as legislation. we heard from keir starmer early on, he doesn t back the plan. his only plan is to borrow £28 million a year more. which would go into higher taxes for everyone in the country. he wants open borders, he opposes our rwanda bill today because he is not interested in controlling illegal immigration and what we are really trying to assert colleagues at the moment is that this is a very important next step in exactly what we are trying to do, which is tackle illegal migration across the channel. which is tackle illegal ....
in a major blow to the prime minister tonight, the minister responsible for immigration, robertjenrick, has resigned at the very moment legislation on asylum seekers was being announced to the commons. his resignation came over a bill attempting to enable the government s policy of sending some migrants to rwanda to go ahead after the supreme court ruled it unlawful. mrjenrick said it didn t go far enough and it would not end what he called the merry go round of legal challenges which risked paralysing the scheme. our political editor chris mason is here. a huge embarrassment this for rishi sunak? it this for rishi sunak? is a huge embarrassment. bu quite it is a huge embarrassment. but quite the thing to do so in the very week that you are attempting a reset on, yes, you guessed it, immigration policy. on monday we had government plans to cut legal immigration adjuster the home secretary james cleverly went to rwanda to set out part of the approach on illegal immig ....
the government believed, this rwanda policy would be a deterrent to people who are considering making that dangerous channel crossing. the government s perspective all it would be. that doesn t take away from the amount of political weight the government has put behind this policy. they have made it essential policy. they have made it essential policy when it comes to immigration. it is the government who has pointed to the rwanda plan. you will remember the former home secretary suella braverman talked about dreaming of putting people in place to rwanda. it is a government that has given such weight to this policy working and that is why it is so significant that the court has now ruled it unlawful. ruled it unlawful. thank you so much. ruled it unlawful. thank you so much- just ruled it unlawful. thank you so much- just got ruled it unlawful. thank you so much. just got a ruled it unlawful. thank you so much. just got a reaction - ruled it unlawful. thank you s ....