Robert Jenrick said Yvette Cooper will be "consigned to the dustbin of history" as he took aim at the Home Secretary on GB News over Labour's migration plan.The Shadow Justice Secretary claimed the measures announced by the Government yesterday would fail to bring down immigration in the way Sir Keir Starmer had promised, warning voters would be let down by the Prime Minister.FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00Robert, good morning to you. Thanks for your time this morning.
00:04Good morning.
00:05Yeah, Robert, there's so much to talk about, most of it about Keir Starmer, I would say.
00:10And let's talk about migrant figures.
00:12First of all, yesterday he made this big speech, this big declaration.
00:16But look, let's cut to the bone here.
00:19Isn't the only way of reducing migrant numbers to pull out of the ECHR?
00:26And if you don't do that, it's not going to happen.
00:30Well, I watched Keir Starmer's press conference yesterday, and frankly, I didn't believe a word of it.
00:36I don't think your viewers would. I don't think my constituents would.
00:40It looked like a hostage situation, where he was reading out words that somebody else had written for him.
00:44We know what he believes. His life, his career, his whole world view is about open borders.
00:51He's just another politician telling lies, saying what he thinks the public wants to hear, but not taking any action.
00:57Nothing he said yesterday is going to stop the votes.
00:59It's not going to bring down legal migration to the historic levels that we want to see.
01:04It's not going to get the one million people in our country who are here illegally out of our country, deport them.
01:09It's not going to get the 12,000 foreign criminals in our prisons out of our prisons, out of our country.
01:15What we have to do is take serious action.
01:18No more lies.
01:19It's serious action.
01:20And what we're saying is that is a legally binding cap set by harm so people can have confidence that this time people actually mean it.
01:29And secondly, we need to ensure that we change those human rights laws and have the Human Rights Act cut out so no more vexatious claims, no more fake actions by illegal migrants and their lawyers.
01:42You can get those people out of our country and end the merry-go-round of ludicrous legal actions that are frustrating the system today.
01:49But people can't take you seriously, though, can they, Mr. Jenrick, because you, as the Tories, you implemented a cap yourselves.
01:57You failed with that cap.
01:59Now we're talking about the ECHR.
02:01You won't commit to leaving the ECHR.
02:04And under your watch, under the previous government, there was the Boris wave, as it's described, of migration, when numbers went from 200,000 or so to 900,000.
02:13So it's a bit rich coming from the Tories, talking about how to get a grip now and reduce net migration.
02:23Well, I have been painfully honest more than I think anybody else about the failings of the last Conservative government.
02:29I think the immigration policy that it pursued was catastrophic.
02:34As you know, when I was immigration minister, I campaigned to put in place measures that would reduce the number of people coming into this country.
02:40I secured the biggest changes to the system in recent memory that will lead to 300,000 fewer people coming in every year.
02:48And I resigned when I couldn't persuade the then Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, to go any further.
02:53I resigned on principle.
02:54And frankly, if only this current crop of Labour politicians had the backbone to do that.
02:59Yvette Cooper is just going to be yet another politician who makes promises and breaks them.
03:04She'll be consigned to the dustbin of history of Home Secretaries who doesn't fix this problem.
03:09We didn't have a cap in the past.
03:12There was a promise, but it was not a legally binding cap.
03:16That is the big difference that we're proposing.
03:19I do believe that cutting out the Human Rights Act that Tony Blair created will make a difference.
03:23It will help to stop the claims.
03:25But yes, we do also need to go further.
03:27And you know my position on leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.
03:31But Kemi Baden, not the leader of the party, is now leading a policy renewal process
03:36where we're going to carefully consider what our position is.
03:38And that's going to come out in the months to come.
03:40Yeah.
03:41What's also coming out very strongly amongst our viewers in terms of who's listening and
03:46who's watching is that unfortunately for Mr Starmer, they don't believe a word that
03:52he is saying based on his previous track record.
03:55This guy flips and flops and flops and flips and people just don't know what he's going
04:00to say next.
04:04Kier Starmer is serially dishonest.
04:07He lied and lied at the general election.
04:09He said he wasn't going to raise taxes and then he went and did it.
04:12And on this, just look at his life.
04:14This is the man who voted against every piece of border control legislation.
04:19He said that border control is basically racist.
04:23He wrote letters trying to frustrate the removal of dangerous criminals from this country back
04:27home to their own countries.
04:28He stood to be leader of the Labour Party on a platform of restoring free movement and
04:33said that immigration was an unalloyed good for this country.
04:37You can't believe a word he says.
04:39And nobody does believe him.
04:41He's just reading out the lines that someone else has written for him.
04:44And it's just going to perpetuate the incredible levels of anger and frustration there are
04:50in this country right now about politicians who make promises and break them on immigration.
04:54Just get out of Westminster and hear what the public feel on this issue.
04:58It is time for action.
05:00That is what the public want now.
05:02Let's get immigration back down to the levels that we enjoyed as a country for decades before
05:06Tony Blair changed all of that because it's putting massive pressure on housing, on public
05:10services.
05:11It's undercutting the wages of British workers and making this country poorer.
05:16And it's making us less united.
05:18The only thing, frankly, I agree with Keir Starmer on is his belief, his sense that we
05:23are living in an increasingly disunited country.
05:25That is the truth.
05:26People are feeling disorientated by the fact that some communities are changing beyond all
05:32recognition.
05:32The pace of change is too fast.
05:34It's got to change.