Launching his plan to reduce illegal migration, Labour leader says closer ties with EU don’t change his stance on Brexit
Rishi Sunak is due to give a broadcast interview later today, and we will get his response then. But we got a flavour of what he will say in the response from the Conservative party issued overnight. A party spokesperson said:
Keir Starmer’s Labour party have been doing everything to undermine our plans to stop the boats - and now he’s opening the door to voluntarily taking even more illegal migrants from the EU. Sir Keir belongs to the same failed politics that won’t take the necessary long-term decisions to tackle this issue. He clearly doesn’t care about illegal immigration and is trying to take the easy way out. Fundamentally his ideas would do nothing but weaken our tough measures.
Only the Conservatives are taking the tough, but necessary decisions to stop the boats. Crossings are down by 20 per cent this year and our deal with Albania has seen illegal Albanian crossings fall by 90 per cent - and proves that delivering on our Rwanda plan, which Labour oppose, is essential to finally ending the small boats altogether.Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, have a meeting at Europol in The Hague.9.
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