Sir Keir Starmer is facing simmering anger over comments about Bangladeshi migrants made during a general election event.Some MP candidates standing in constituencies with large Muslim populations have issued statements distancing themselves from the remarks, and the deputy leader of Tower Hamlets Labour resigned on Wednesday.
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00:00I've done it before, I know how it's done, I think it can be done again, and that way
00:04we can stop people coming here in the first place.
00:08On the question of returns, because you raised that, which is very important, the number
00:11of people being returned to where they came from has dropped off by 44% under this government.
00:19So on the first few days in government, I'll tell you what I'll do, I'll put the staff
00:22back in the returns unit, I'll make sure that we've got planes going off, not to Rwanda
00:28because that's an expensive gimmick.
00:31They will go back to the countries where people come from.
00:34That's what used to happen.
00:35Where are they?
00:36I mean, it's so hard to do.
00:38Well, at the moment, people coming from countries like Bangladesh are not being removed because
00:43they're not being processed.