Steve Reed defends Home Secretary's asylum reforms

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Housing Secretary Steve Reed says he is "confident" Labour MPs will back Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's asylum reforms because "all of us are outraged with what we see" happening in the English Channel.    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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00:00I'm confident that Labour MPs will back what Shabana Mahmood, our Home Secretary, announced yesterday

00:05because all of us were elected on a manifesto that committed us to securing our borders.

00:12All of us are outraged at what we see with these traffickers, that vile trade in human being,

00:19putting people on dinghies, launching them into the English Channel.

00:23And we've lost lives. Over the last year alone, 14 children drowned in the English Channel because of this.

00:31So we know we need more safe and legal routes to get people into the country who have a need to come here for sanctuary and for refuge.

00:39But we have to stop those who do not have a right to be here from making that journey,

00:45not least because of the danger it poses to their own lives.

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