Yvette Cooper is "in line to be the worst Home Secretary ever" after this weekend saw another record high for migrant crossings, commentator Emma Woolf has claimed.The Home Office confirmed that 656 small boat migrants cross the Channel on Saturday, setting a new daily record for 2025.FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00Hungary opting out of the EU migration policy.
00:03Denmark has a zero refugee policy.
00:06Why can't we do things like that now?
00:09We need to send the message to those beaches in France
00:11with leaflets or whatever.
00:13If you try, you get nothing when you come.
00:15And you watch, they won't come over.
00:17If they don't think they're getting a hotel and free money,
00:20they won't come.
00:20In my opinion, smash the gangs is a policy
00:24I think the government are going to have to say,
00:26hands up, we failed.
00:27Do you think that's already the case with the policy
00:30or do you think they need a bit of a longer shot?
00:32Look, they don't smash the gangs and they don't stop the boats.
00:34And it's actually worse than, you know, they're not just failing.
00:38Keir Starmer's almost given up.
00:40He's now just resorted to saying it's really bad.
00:43It's a really bad situation.
00:44I think Yvette Cooper may be in line for being
00:47the worst Home Secretary ever.
00:49And we've had a few hopeless Home Secretaries.
00:52We're not just a soft touch at this point.
00:54We're actually welcoming them with open arms.
00:57And it's worse than what Bill says about it being visually
00:59and symbolically bad that we haven't got control of our borders.
01:02Because when Alex points out that it's 40% of the daily birth rate,
01:08it's not just about the warm weather.
01:09We know the warm weather.
01:10That's like saying the NHS, you know, struggles every winter.
01:13We know it's going to be fine-ish weather, you know,
01:17sailable weather over the next few months.
01:19And these boats just keep on coming and we are doing nothing.
01:23Either we need to stop paying the French these millions of pounds,
01:26or we admit defeat, or, Alex, we do something.
01:29And you know what?
01:30When you want to save the British steel industry, they do something.
01:33They reconvene Parliament, they pointlessly get everybody back
01:36from their holidays, and they get a royal assent through.
01:39What do you mean pointlessly get people back from their holidays?
01:41Because we had to save the steel industry.
01:44Exactly.
01:45But that wasn't known.
01:46So you don't welcome that?
01:48You don't welcome that?
01:49I don't want to get on to talk about steel tonight,
01:50because this is a big important topic.
01:52We did steal to death, trust me.
01:54Bill, what do you make of what Emma's saying?
01:56I don't think it's true.
01:57This government desperately wants to reduce net migration.
02:01And you say, you know, this is a huge element of it.
02:04I want to reduce the boats, but it's 3% of net migration.
02:07And there is been progress being made on reducing the numbers overall.
02:11We had a million when we came to office.
02:13The projections are net migration next year of 330,000.
02:16Now, I want to go further than that, but that is a big, significant reduction.
02:20And, Adam, we've got a deal in facts.
02:22Denmark has not got a zero migration policy.
02:26Migrants go into Denmark every day of the week.
02:29I've read several articles before I come on.
02:32You read a lot of stuff on the internet that isn't true.
02:34No, I've read things from actual papers in this country, right?
02:39At the end of the day...
02:40Then come on this show next week and demonstrate that Denmark's got zero migrants.
02:44I proved you wrong on a point the other week.
02:45No, you didn't.
02:46Yes, I did, Bill, and I'll prove you wrong again.
02:48We've had 600 people...
02:49Zero migrants in Denmark.
02:50Bill, we've had 600 people cross the channel yesterday.
02:53When they're given leave to remain, they will each bring four family members, maybe five.
02:57So, yesterday, we are basically, I've got a liability now, of about 2,500 people from yesterday alone.
03:05Another five or ten years of this, even at the next election, this country will be...
03:09And the fact is...
03:09Unrecognisable.
03:11It will be.
03:11We're bringing terrorists in, rapists, criminals, legal migration, we can track people.
03:17Yeah.
03:18Illegal, we cannot, because they throw their IDs.
03:20Just to clarify, they have a zero refugee policy as of this year.
03:24But migrants are coming in to Denmark every week.
03:30Apology, Bill, thank you.
03:31No, no, migrants are coming into Denmark every week.
03:33Go and look at the evidence.
03:35They've got a zero refugee policy.
03:37Yeah, but migrants are coming into the country.
03:40I would say the argument is that they are saying we're going to...
03:42You can say all sorts of things, but the practical reality is what matters.
03:46That's important.
03:47I mean, look, Emma...