‘It’s just more chaos’: Tory plan to limit boat crossings makes things worse, warns Labour – video

The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, warned that Suella Braverman’s plan to reduce small boat crossings was a replica of a previous failed policy. Likening Braverman’s plan to her predecessor Priti Patel’s, Cooper challenged the practicality of the plans, saying the government simply did not have a returns policy for ‘illegal’ arrivals, often indefinitely detaining people. Cooper told MPs: ‘We can’t afford any more slogans and not solutions, just government by gimmick, ramping up the rhetoric on refugees and picking fights simply to have someone else to blame when things go wrong’