Defence Secretary Grant Shapps claims the Labour Party always instructs its peers to vote against legislation in the House of Lords, but he hopes they will "come to sense" and pass the government's Rwanda Bill. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 always a problem in the House of Lords. Labour direct their peers to vote against it. Labour
00:04 have fought tooth and nail against every piece of legislation we've put in place to stop
00:09 this disgusting trade and people trafficking across the English Channel. They don't have
00:13 any ideas of their own. They sit on the sidelines and they criticise. I hope they will come
00:19 to sense and encourage their own peers, their own Lords, to back this bill because it cannot
00:25 be right to allow people to put their lives at risk at the hands of criminals to be trafficked
00:31 across the English Channel. And I haven't heard anybody else come up with their own
00:35 plan that would actually deal with it. We're a broad church like every political party,
00:40 but the one thing we all agree with is it's very important to stop the small boats. As
00:44 I say, we've actually had significant success this year. It's been largely unnoted and unreported
00:50 in the newspapers, but we've slashed by a third the number of small boats coming across.
00:55 No one in the Conservative Party thinks that we shouldn't be passing more legislation as
00:59 far as I can tell. And then it's quite right that people have views about the best way
01:03 to shape the legislation to get the outcome that's required.