Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Helen Whately says the Home Secretary's asylum reform proposals may not work unless Britain leaves the ECHR. "One of the big risks they face is they are going to get stuck trying to do this," she said. 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, I'd say at last the government is waking up to the importance of stopping the boats and actually doing something serious about that, because it's only got worse under them.
00:08I should say, though, that some of the things that they're suggesting are similar things that we did to control immigration asylum claims when we were in power, and Labour blocked them every step of the way.
00:21Labour was against all these sorts of things to say, at last, good thing that the Home Secretary is trying to get a grip.
00:27One of the challenges she's going to find, though, on the one hand, her backbenchers who won't support it, and on the other hand, the problem with lawfare that we came up against,
00:36where we try to do things like our third-party agreement to deport people who came here illegally to Rwanda, we found that blocked in the courts.
00:44That's why we have said we would leave the ECHR, but Labour are not saying that.
00:49So that's one of the big risks they face, is that they're going to get stuck trying to do this.
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