00:00We need to tackle the high number of people coming into this country.
00:04Immigration is too high.
00:05So we want to support all the sensible and good measures that will help bring it down.
00:09But we have a bill in Parliament right now where none of those measures are going in.
00:13We've been putting things in.
00:15He has been voting against them.
00:16Take indefinite leave to remain.
00:18We wanted it to be 15 years.
00:19It's too quick, the rate at which people get British citizenship.
00:23We need to do something about that.
00:24He's watered that down to 10 years and again kicked it into the long grass.
00:28But of course we want to see sensible measures on migration.
00:31It is far too high.
00:32My party has acknowledged that.
00:33But what I have done now that we are under new leadership
00:35is get everyone in my party to sign up to the new, much tougher proposals.
00:39I think Labour are taking us for fools, quite frankly.
00:42I think they are taking us for fools.
00:43This is nowhere near the scale of the change that we need to see.
00:47There's only one party that is serious about solving this issue.
00:50We're not like reform announcing more ministers.
00:52That's not what's going to solve the problem.
00:54What will solve the problem is systemic change.
00:56Things like disapplying the Human Rights Act.
00:59We had a deportations bill last week that had that as well as several tougher measures.
01:04Labour has had an announcement this morning that's about watering down good proposals.
01:09It's not good enough.
01:10They are taking us for fools.
01:11We need to make sure that we have enough people in our country working
01:15before we start looking to other countries.
01:17And this is one of the things that has helped drive up the costs and the scale of migration.
01:23Because it isn't just the workers who are coming in, it's also the dependents that they bring in.
01:28That's when it stops being a net benefit and becomes a net cost.
01:31The small boats crisis is getting worse.
01:33It is a lot worse than it was this time last year.
01:35Labour are doing nothing on it.
01:37They need to do things now.
01:39And there are opportunities and proposals now that they can take forwards,
01:42not just announce a white paper looking to the future.
01:45Thank you all for trying to get out.
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