Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says the entire asylum system is failing and needs to be reformed. It comes after Mahmood unveiled radical reforms, launching a package of changes which the government called the biggest in "modern history". Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00Well look, I think the sheer scale of the crossings across the channel, despite all of the enforcement activity that we've undertaken, particularly in collaboration with our French counterparts, you know, we've prevented 20,000 illegal crossings already as a result of law enforcement action, but still those crossings keep on coming.
00:17We've seen 400,000 asylum applications over the last four years alone, and everywhere I look, since I've been Home Secretary, across the asylum system, every bit of it doesn't work as it should.
00:29So I can see the scale, pretty much every bit of this system either takes too long, is ruinously expensive, is failing, we have large numbers of failed asylum seekers still in this country with no ability to remove them.
00:42I know that the system, the whole of it, needs wholesale reform, and I fully understand why the pace and the scale of what we've seen in terms of the asylum system is fueling division across our country.
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