Philp: UK must quit ECHR to fix borders

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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp dismisses the government’s new immigration proposals as “gimmicks” and argues they fall far short of what is needed to regain control of the UK’s borders such as coming out of the ECHR.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The proposals the government are making today are a combination of gimmicks and some small steps in the right direction.

00:07But it is nothing like radical enough to get control of our country's borders.

00:10We need to come out of the ECHR.

00:12We need to make sure that every single illegal immigrant is deported within a week of arrival with no asylum claims at all allowed.

00:21And we need to make sure that foreign citizens in this country are not eligible for taxpayer-funded benefits.

00:27That is a tough and radical package that the Conservatives proposed at our conference a few weeks ago.

00:33And what the Labour government is proposing today is nothing like enough to fix the mess they're currently presiding over.

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