Robert Jenrick references Winston Churchill as he calls for foreign offenders to be deported

Jenrick references Winston Churchill as he calls for foreign offenders to be deported GB News

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00:00people is the release of around 2,000 dangerous criminals next week, October 22nd. Labour

00:05say it's your fault for not building enough prisons. It's hard to argue with them. You

00:09left the prisons at full capacity when you left power. What would you do if you were

00:13in power? Would you release the 2,000 dangerous individuals next week?

00:17No, I wouldn't. Look, we should have built more prison places, but we did build more

00:22than the last Labour government.

00:23Why didn't you build more prison places?

00:24Well, when I was housing secretary, I changed the law to make the planning system faster

00:28so we could build more prisons. But we did build more places than the last Labour government.

00:32So don't believe everything that Keir Starmer tells you. He said that there was no space

00:36in the prisons, and then he found 500 places as soon as the riots happened. So I think

00:41he was motivated out of ideology as much as practicality.

00:45But look, I do think we should be building more prisons. I want us to be locking up more

00:48hyper-prolific offenders. Almost 60% of all the crimes are committed by under 10% of the

00:55criminals. So we've got to change that. We should be building more prisons, keeping

00:59the public safe as a result.

01:02And how will you get that quickly done? That's the concern for many people.

01:06Well, I think we could build prisons faster than we have in the recent past. But the other

01:10thing, frankly, we need to do, Chris, is get the 10,000 foreign national offenders out

01:15of our prisons. That would be a good start. And incidentally, Chris, one of the reasons

01:24it's so difficult to do that is because of the European Convention on Human Rights. That

01:29defends the rights of foreign criminals who are in our prisons and on our streets. When

01:35Winston Churchill thought of the right to a family life, he never thought of the idea

01:39of a foreign rapist or murderer having the right to stay in our country rather than being

01:43sent back to their home country.