Cooper: Govt taking country for fools over asylum claims
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has disputed Rishi Sunak's claims of having cleared the asylum backlog as "totally false", adding the prime minister should "stop taking the country for fools".
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00:00 Rishi Sunak's claim to have cleared the asylum backlog is just totally false. In fact, the figures
00:06 are nearly a hundred thousand cases and they haven't even fully cleared the bit of the backlog
00:13 they were targeting. And that's why we've still got record numbers of people in asylum hotels
00:20 costing the taxpayer a total fortune. Rishi Sunak should stop taking the country for fools,
00:26 should stop the boasts and get on with delivering properly instead. These dangerous boat crossings
00:32 are undermining our border security and putting lives at risk. That's why the government should
00:37 be taking action to strengthen our border security and also to fix the Tories asylum chaos.
00:44 And instead they're failing to do that.