00:00The government inherited a one-for-one return scheme.
00:05The Rwanda deterrent would have been successful in stopping every single boat
00:10because it would have returned everybody and thereby made it impossible
00:13for people smugglers to sell that passage to the United Kingdom.
00:18Yvette Cooper, as Home Secretary, cancelled that.
00:21And now here we are, after presiding over the biggest increase in arrivals to these shores
00:26since the Norman Conquest, one year later a pale pastiche of that scheme,
00:31which I think within its own terms won't be successful
00:34because if you've got a 90 to 95% chance of being allowed by this Home Secretary
00:40to stay in the United Kingdom, only a 5% chance of being returned to France,
00:45then I think that will continue to see the people smugglers have that incentive
00:49to be able to sell tickets to come to this country.
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