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Good morning. Keir Starmer has made a lot of effort into measures that will “break up the gangs, and today the government announces the beginning of one of its great achievements in this field – a kind of return agreement with France. This is only a pilot and the numbers are likely to be small, but the conservatives never negotiated such an agreement while trying to stop their arrival. (In fact, as a result of Brexit, They succeeded in the opposite.) At work Jessica ElgotThe story about the agreement.

And here’s home office newsletter.

Yvette cooperThe Interior Minister is talking to publishers this morning. In media interviews, some politicians want to continue the attack by opening new arguments or attack lines. The Cooper’s final defender drowns all strange questions with the swing of technocratic logic. Journalists find it frustrating, because they tend to be a little boring, but the government spin doctors are happy because it never sucks.

When Starmer and Emmanuel Macron announced the “One In, One” pilot last month, the details of how to work were sketchy. In his interviews this morning, Cooper did not explain anything new about how the plan will work, and he argued that if he was going to release this information, people could help people’s smugglers escape from the new regime. It has been widely reported that the program will start with the removal of approximately 50 people per week, but Cooper will not even approve it. He said the program today in the numbers:

We do not put a general number on this program. Of course, it will reduce the numbers and then build, but we want to expand it. We want to increase the number of people returning through this program.

However, Cooper tried to resist the key accusation against the government – that the measures in which he fell all the gangs ”that he heard failed, because small boat arrival is recorded.

Today, when asked why the arrival numbers rise last year, Cooper referred to two reasons. He said:

What we have seen throughout this year has changed in the tactics by criminal gangs and they do two things.

First of all, to take advantage of the French maritime rules aimed at that by this summer, French authorities could not intervene in the French waters. So we saw these embarrassing scenes of the fact that people were loaded on small boats in shallow waters, and then could not intervene according to the French police rules.

Therefore, as a part of this agreement with France, France changes the sea rules and this summer will begin later.

We see the second reason [a] A major increase in the excessive crowd of boats is clogging on boats much more people.

That’s why we’re trying to change the law. We currently have a new border security invoice passing through the Parliament, bringing a new crime of danger, so that people entering excessive crowded boats that openly risk other people’s lives can be prosecuted to ride these overcrowded boats. Because especially these two factors that direct it.

The Cooper implied that the government could reduce the arrival figures of the Cooper by referring to these two factors as a statement and emphasizing that the government addressed them.

The conservatives claim that it is wrong because only a Rwanda -style deterrent policy will work. In the press statement overnight, the party’s UK-France agreement is the “immigrant delivery agreement” (using Boris Johnson’s inflamed Brexit discourse) and Chris PhilpShadow House Secretary, said:

Only 50 illegal immigrants per week and probably less return will not make any difference. This is only 6% of illegal arrivals. It will not be a deterrent to allow 94% to remain in the UK. This is a cheat that will not work.

Rwanda, 100% of the illegal arrival will be removed from the deterrence, ready to go last summer, but the Labor Party, only days before the appropriate spare plan began. As a result, this year has been the worst for illegal immigrants who have passed the channel so far.

Only the abolition of all illegal immigrants at arrival will provide the necessary deterrence to stop the transitions. This conservative plan, but labor is very weak to implement it, and as a result they lost control of our borders.

August, the parliament is reinforced and there is almost nothing today. This morning, the house office returns the text “One in, One Out” with France. And Kemi Badenoch is visiting the North West Essex election zone, where Tories will re -express its opposition to what Labour call “Family Farm Tax”.

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