Nigel Farage says Reform UK "very much enjoyed" Sir Keir Starmer's remarks on immigration and an 'island of migrants', which critics have likened to Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968. Reform's party leader urges the prime minister to declare the situation in the English Channel as a national security emergency. Starmer replies that the government's borders bill will allow law enforcement to take action "before crimes are committed", adding it is "extraordinary" that Farage "of all people, voted against it". 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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00:00We at Reform, a party that is alive and kicking, very much enjoyed your speech on Monday.
00:06You seem to be learning a very great deal from us.
00:08Can I encourage you please to go further as a matter of national security?
00:16As a matter of national security, over the weekend, an illegal immigrant from Iran,
00:21who we believe came by boat, was arrested in the north of England on serious charges of terrorism.
00:27Since the speech on Monday, 1,000 young, undocumented young males have crossed the English Channel.
00:33Does the Prime Minister agree?
00:35Now is the time to declare the situation in the English Channel as a national security emergency.
00:42It wasn't my speech, it was the Prime Minister's.
00:45Mr Speaker, the situation is serious.
00:48The last government lost control of the borders.
00:50We are taking power.
00:51The borders bill, precisely to his point, the borders bill is the first bill to give terrorism-like powers to law enforcement,
01:00precisely so that we can get in before the crimes are committed, before people get to this country.
01:05That's why this is the most far-reaching provision ever for law enforcement to defend and secure our borders.
01:12And that's why it is extraordinary that he, of all people, voted against it.
01:18And sooner or later, he's going to have explain it.