"For too long, the UK has been a soft touch" on irregular migration, says UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer as he hosts a major summit in London. Starmer is seeking to crack down on would-be asylum seekers arriving in England on flimsy small boats and has brought together delegates from more than 40 nations for a two-day meeting. "Since coming to office, I can announce today, we've returned more than 24,000 people who have no right to be here," says Starmer. Starmer's summit is designed to build on a plan that Britain, Belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands signed in December to boost cooperation against irregular migration.
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00:00Since coming to office, I can announce today we've returned more than 24,000 people who have no right to be here.
00:10That would have taken the Rwanda scheme 80 years to achieve.
00:16This is an unfairness.
00:18And there is little that strikes working people as more unfair than watching illegal migration drive down their wages, their terms and their conditions
00:29through illegal work in their community.
00:32We'll be honest here, for too long the UK has been a soft touch on this.