00:00 This government has taken a series of decisions,
00:02 worked very hard, worked with other countries,
00:05 tightened up our system, returned 20,000 people,
00:10 done a new deal with Albania,
00:11 cooperated with the French, Bulgaria, and Turkey
00:13 to intervene upstream,
00:15 increased the number of illegal migration raids,
00:17 cracked through the backlog, and because of all of that,
00:19 the number of people coming here is down by a third.
00:22 Nobody, when I stood up and made that pledge,
00:24 thought that was remotely possible.
00:26 So that's a progress we've already made on that pledge,
00:28 and again, job is not done.
00:30 We need to finish the job,
00:32 and that's why we need to get the Rwanda scheme
00:34 up and running, and I'm completely committed
00:35 to doing what is necessary to get those flights off
00:39 and that scheme up and running.
00:41 Because we had prepared for all circumstances,
00:44 we have been working on a new treaty with Rwanda
00:46 that will address all the concerns
00:48 that were raised by the Supreme Court,
00:51 and we will combine that with new emergency legislation
00:54 that will make it crystal clear
00:56 and give Parliament the opportunity to confirm
00:58 that Rwanda, for all of these purposes,
01:01 is a safe place to implement our scheme.
01:05 And I won't let a foreign court stop us
01:08 from getting flights off to Rwanda.
01:10 This is a reasonable country.
01:12 This is a reasonable government.
01:15 But people's patience has run thin,
01:17 and we have got to end this merry-go-round,
01:19 and that is what I am determined to do.
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