Sunak handing migrants a 'Tory amnesty', says Starmer as MP defects to Labour

They know there’s nothing behind the boasts, the gimmicks, the smug smile. He’s a dodgy salesman desperate to sell them a dud. Since he claimed V16 days ago, there have been a staggering 2400 small boat crossing 2400. That’s a gimmick, not a deterrent. And those 2400 will be added to the Tories Asylum Perma backlog, which is forecast to rise to 100,000 by the end of this year. Now the Prime Minister pretends he will remove them all to Rwanda. But Rwanda can only take a few hundred a year. At that rate the Prime Minister’s grand plan would take over 300 years to remove them all. Mr. Speaker, that’s 10s of thousands of people with their claims going on processed who are going to be here for their entire lifetime living in hotels of the taxpayers expense. It is absurd to call that anything other than an amnesty handed to them by the Tory party, isn’t it? Minister Well, Mr. Speaker, he had the opportunity to condemn the comments of his mayor and there who said that there is an equivalence between Hamas and Israel. He did not do that and everyone will see what that is. That is the change. Labour Party, Mr. Speaker, right there, but. Since I became Prime Minister, small boat crossings are down by a third. That’s because we’ve doubled NCA funding, increased enforcement race closed bank accounts, deported 24,000 people, process more claims. And Mr. Speaker, when it comes to border control, there is a crucial difference between us. We want secure borders. He’s happy with open borders.