Boris backers need to 'stop briefing the media', Shadow Justice Minister claims

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Shadow Justice Minister Kieran Mullan has appealed to supporters of Boris Johnson to stop briefing the media about a potential comeback.Asked if Johnson could revive the fortunes of the Conservative Party, he told GB News: “ I don't think that's a conversation I've been having with any of my colleagues.“I think what we're focused on is what the public wants us to be focused on, which is providing a critical opposition to Labour and all the damage that they're doing to our economy and our country and putting forward our own policies and alternative positions.“I think one of the messages I got from the last election was that the public wanted us to be focused on doing our jobs and not briefing and leaking and all that sort of stuff. I think anything like that is just not a helpful contribution to make.“I'd urge any colleagues who are talking to the press about those sorts of things, as much as I know you guys want to talk to us about that sort of thing, it's not helpful. I'm focused on getting the job done.”WATCH ABOVE.

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00:00What do you make of this plan, these return hubs across the EU? We're talking this morning about

00:06Kosovo, Britain asking Kosovo to take small boat migrants and rejected asylum seekers.

00:12What do you make of this plan? Will it work to stop the small boats?

00:17Well, I know people were very frustrated that we didn't get the Rwanda plan operational as quickly

00:22as we would have liked, as I would have liked. But we did have in place a plan with a third

00:27country to take migrants as a deterrent, which even the National Crime Agency has said is vitally

00:32important. So whilst I welcome any efforts to create an alternative deterrent, which Labour still

00:37have not done, what they should have done is make an attempt to operationalise and use that Rwanda

00:42policy that we had in place. A key difference between what Labour have talked about doing and

00:46what we plan to do, we plan to say if you come here, you go to a third country and they process

00:52your asylum claim. What Labour have talked about, in my understanding so far, is taking people to be

00:57processed somewhere else. There are real disadvantages to that approach because they're still caught up in

01:02all of the law and the processing that we have to run, just being done elsewhere. The benefits of

01:08the Rwanda approach was that it would have been the Rwanda government making the decisions about who

01:12did or didn't secure asylum. I think that's the better approach. It's the more reliable approach.

01:17And I really do regret all the things that Labour have turned on, whether it's taxes on hardworking

01:22people, taxes on farmers, taxes on schools, all these things that they've done that are so damaging.

01:27I wish the one change they would have made was to make an attempt to get that Rwanda policy working.

01:32It worked for Australia. The same approach. Australia said, if you come here, we'll take you

01:36somewhere else and you don't get to stay. They saw more than 90% drop in crossings. We could have

01:40that same result here, I think. Yeah. And

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