Sir Keir Starmer describes the government's response to his plans to seek closer co-operation with the EU over the small boats crisis as "nonsense". It comes after Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the Labour leader would let the UK become a "dumping ground" for Europe's migrants. Speaking during a visit to The Hague, Sir Keir tells broadcasters: "It's embarrassing that the government is pumping out this nonsense”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 The government has lost control of our borders and we can see that with the number of crossings
00:04 there are across the Channel in small boats. We have to stop that and I think the only
00:09 way to stop that is to smash the gangs that are running this vile trade. And that's why
00:14 I've been exploring today at Europol with police teams, with prosecutorial teams, whether
00:22 we can get a closer agreement that would allow us to share information more quickly, to have
00:27 joint operations to take down those that are running this vile trade by stopping those
00:31 boats getting in the water in the first place. That is taking control of a situation that
00:37 the government has totally lost control of. It's embarrassing that the government is pumping
00:42 out this nonsense. I can only assume it's because they've got nothing sensible to say
00:48 on the issue. What I'm discussing today is a security agreement, sharing of information,
00:54 analysing the way that we can smash these gangs. I think anybody watching this would
00:58 say that's common sense, we need to do it, get on with it. But I'm afraid this is now
01:04 typical from a government that has completely lost control of the situation.