Home office minister: Small boats are un-seaworthy
Home Office minister Dame Angela Eagle says small boats are becoming “even more un-seaworthy” after at least 12 migrants died off the northern French coast on Tuesday. Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, it's clear that more people are going into boats and the boats are becoming even
00:06more unseaworthy than they were. In this terrible tragedy that happened earlier this week, only
00:13eight of the people on that boat had any kind of life jacket, for example. And asking people
00:19to go across the busiest shipping lane, one of them anyway, in the world, with no equipment,
00:25in a flimsy boat, is asking for trouble. It's important that we disrupt what's happening
00:32because it's not right that people smuggling gangs and criminals decide who comes to our
00:37country.