Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride insists the Conservative Party is “united” over the government’s Rwanda Bill despite there being “strong views” from some Tory MPs. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 People will have different views over the Bill, as I say, because they have very strong,
00:04 rightly strong feelings about it. But we're all absolutely united in knowing that if we
00:08 can deliver, and I'm sure we will, a Bill that serves as an effective deterrent to stop people
00:14 coming across those short Dover straits, then that's something that will be saving lives for
00:19 those who very sadly are perishing in that process, and further building upon the progress
00:25 that we've already made. A 36% reduction in the numbers coming across compared to rising numbers
00:31 in Europe, 80% increase in numbers in the case of Italy. And we can only do that and continue
00:37 that progress because we have a clear plan. Now Labour have nothing to say about this other than
00:41 to oppose us, and that's because they don't have a plan, and we'd be back to square one
00:47 if we went down their route.