Govt signs £8 billion Typhoon fighter jet deal with Turkey

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Britain has agreed to sell 20 Typhoon jets to Turkey in a deal worth up to £8 billion.    Sir Keir Starmer signed the deal during a visit to Ankara on Monday, describing it as “a win for British workers, a win for our defence industry, and a win for Nato security”.   Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well, we inherited a huge mess in relation to pretty well all departments in government

00:07and that includes the Home Office.

00:09If you take the issue of asylum hotels for example, we had years under the previous government

00:14where they didn't process claims.

00:16So tens of thousands of people didn't have their claims processed, they were then housed

00:20in hotels, that was the policy of the last government, there were 400 at the height of

00:25it, it's now about 200.

00:26I'm determined that we will close those hotels, we're processing the claims much more quickly

00:32and where people have got no right to be in our country, we're removing them, but a higher

00:35rate than the best part of a decade, so we're taking the action, but I can't tell you how

00:40frustrated and angry I am that we've been left with a mess as big as this by the last government.

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