00:00 always a problem in the House of Lords. Labour direct their peers to vote against it. Labour
00:04 have fought tooth and nail against every piece of legislation we've put in place to stop
00:09 this disgusting trade and people trafficking across the English Channel. They don't have
00:13 any ideas of their own. They sit on the sidelines and they criticise. I hope they will come
00:19 to sense and encourage their own peers, their own Lords, to back this bill because it cannot
00:25 be right to allow people to put their lives at risk at the hands of criminals to be trafficked
00:31 across the English Channel. And I haven't heard anybody else come up with their own
00:35 plan that would actually deal with it. We're a broad church like every political party,
00:40 but the one thing we all agree with is it's very important to stop the small boats. As
00:44 I say, we've actually had significant success this year. It's been largely unnoted and unreported
00:50 in the newspapers, but we've slashed by a third the number of small boats coming across.
00:55 No one in the Conservative Party thinks that we shouldn't be passing more legislation as
00:59 far as I can tell. And then it's quite right that people have views about the best way
01:03 to shape the legislation to get the outcome that's required.
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