Rishi Sunak has accused Sir Keir Starmer of "rank hypocrisy" over the Labour leader's plan to establish a new Border Security Command to tackle people-smuggling gangs bringing migrants across the Channel. The prime minister says Labour's plan will "offer an amnesty to illegal migrants" and that the government will get its planes to Rwanda off the ground. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00If you look at the reality of it, Keir Starmer's idea on migration is to scrap our Rwanda plan
00:06and to offer an amnesty to illegal migrants. And as far as I can tell, all the things
00:10that we're talking about today are all things that we're already doing. Crunching through the
00:14backlog, having more law enforcement officers do more, that's all happening already. We announced
00:19all of that more than a year ago. The question for Keir Starmer then is, if he cares so much
00:23about that, why did he vote against the new laws that we passed to give our law enforcement
00:28officers new powers? They've now used those to arrest almost 1,000 people connected with
00:33illegal migration, sentenced them to hundreds of years in prison, and if it was up to him,
00:38all those people would be out on our streets. So I just think it's a rank hypocrisy of this
00:42position. And when it comes to illegal migration, it's very simple. He's just going to scrap the
00:47Rwanda plan and open up our borders. We've got a plan, and we're going to get our planes off.