00:00The Independent Office of National Statistics has conducted vital work on the state of immigration
00:08and found the previous government were running an open borders experiment.
00:14As the ONS sets out, nearly one million people came to Britain in the year ending June 2023.
00:24That is four times the migration levels compared with 2019.
00:29The failure on this scale isn't just bad luck.
00:35It isn't a global trend or taking your eye off the ball.
00:38No, this is a different order of failure.
00:43This happened by design, not accident.
00:48Policies were reformed deliberately to liberalise immigration.
00:53It was used for that purpose.
00:56To turn Britain into a one-nation experiment in open borders.
01:02Global Britain, remember that slogan?
01:06That is what they meant.
01:08A policy with no support, of which they then pretended wasn't happening.
01:14And now they want to wave it away with a simple, we got it wrong.
01:21Well that's unforgivable.
01:24And mark my words, this government will turn the page.
01:29That begins in the economy, because you cannot separate this failure from their refusal to
01:37do the hard yards on skills, on welfare reform, on giving our young people opportunities.
01:45Rather the easy answers of looking overseas.
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