Cooper Hails Labour’s Migration Policies As Channel Crossings Soar and Experts Back Rwanda Plan
Yvette Cooper delivered her conference speech, lauding the triumph of Labour’s Border Security Command, scrapping the Rwanda scheme and harking on about her “serious government” knowing “that immigration is important”. So far, Labour’s “tough” stance on migration hasn’t exactly been a roaring success…
This weekend, 1,424 migrants crossed the English Channel, bringing the total this year so far to over 25,000 – at this pace, figures will soon soar past last year’s tally. Meanwhile, Asylum minister Angela Eagle admitted to Labour conference that one in five small boat migrants are claiming they are children, meaning border control are much more lenient and migrants “get a better deal”. This comes as a leading EU asylum expert, Gerald Knaus, has said the Rwanda scheme “would have worked”. Not something the Home Secretary should be touting as a successful scrap just yet then. No wonder Cooper kept her speech rather short today…
