Mahmood: No ‘silver bullet’ on small boat crossings

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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said there is “no silver bullet” to stop small boat crossings, as she defended the government’s approach including increased removals, new policy measures and closer cooperation with France and European partners.   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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00:00I've always said that there is not one silver bullet to deal with the boat crossings.

00:04It's why just a few weeks ago I announced new policy and new measures on dealing with the

00:11incentives that draw people into those boats and then across the channel into this country.

00:16It's why I've said we're going to increase removals. We've already got the removals of

00:20people from this country up. It's just under 50,000 at the moment, which is a big increase

00:25on what we inherited from the previous government. And the work that we're doing with our partners

00:29in France and across Europe has actually prevented at least 20,000 illegal crossings. And even

00:35yesterday, some of those boats were stopped. I know lots made it across, but boats were also

00:41stopped on the beaches as well. So there isn't any one silver bullet here, and I've always been

00:46very clear about that. We are taking every measure at our disposal, including new powers

00:51and new policy to clamp down on this.

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