The shadow home secretary says Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has "lost control of our borders", and that his "complete failure" on immigration will lose Labour voters. Chris Philp adds, "his pledge to smash the gangs is in complete tatters". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I think the Prime Minister's credibility on this issue is in complete tatters.
00:03He promised to smash the gangs.
00:04He has completely failed to do that.
00:0630,000 crossings, illegal channel crossings since the election,
00:10up by 31%.
00:12And this year so far, 2025, has been the worst year on record.
00:16Keir Starmer has no credibility on this issue.
00:18He was told we needed a deterrent.
00:21The National Crime Agency told him that.
00:22Yet he scrapped the Rwanda scheme before it even started.
00:26And these are the results.
00:27Of course we support international law enforcement,
00:30but that on its own isn't enough.
00:32And Keir Starmer's appalling failure on these illegal channel crossings
00:36shows that to be the case.
00:38Well, in 2023, we started to get the channel crossings down.
00:41They went down by a third.
00:42But Labour has thrown away that progress
00:44by scrapping the Rwanda deterrent before it even started.
00:48And they have delivered record numbers this year,
00:50the highest year ever, the worst year ever for channel crossings.
00:53I think Keir Starmer's complete failure on immigration,
00:56he's lost control of our borders,
00:58will cause him massive political problems.
01:00People that supported Labour will go and support someone else,
01:03I hope the Conservatives,
01:04because we have got a plan to take action on this.
01:07But Keir Starmer's pledge to smash the gangs is in complete tatters.
01:11He has lost control of our borders.
01:12And we had the ludicrous sight yesterday
01:14of the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper,
01:16blaming the weather for her own failings.
01:18That was a pathetic and lamentable excuse.
01:21And the public are going to be extremely angry
01:24to hear the Home Secretary using that kind of excuse.