Housing minister Matthew Pennycook describes Reform UK’s plans for mass deportations of migrants as “unworkable gimmicks” and says Nigel Farage’s plans to negotiate returns agreements with countries like Iran and Eritrea are “for the birds”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00What your viewers need to engage with are the practical considerations of the proposals that they're putting forward.
00:06And as I understand them, one of the core elements of their plan is a series of return agreements with countries like Afghanistan, Eritrea and Iran.
00:16And to my view, although the Labour government has negotiated returns agreements, we've got a groundbreaking pilot with France that is getting up and running.
00:24We want to secure more returns agreements. But the idea that Nigel Farage and the circus that is reform will come in and negotiate promptly returns agreements with those sorts of regime, I think is for the birds.
00:35And your viewers need to know what happens if those returns agreements aren't secured.
00:40Where do the planes go if the Taliban's won't agree to a returns agreement? What happens in the case of Iran, which is currently being sanctioned?
00:46So we will get on with the practical, hard-headed, admittedly unglamorous series of measures that are required to bear down on this problem rather than unworkable gimmicks of the kind that reform and other parties are putting forward.
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