Elphicke: PM let country down by inaction with small boats

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Former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke has accused the prime minister of 'letting the country down' by not tackling small boat crossings, adding she had confidence Labour would.    Sir Keir Starmer said Ms Elphicke's defection speaks for 'very many Tory voters' who believe its party has changed.  Report by Alibhaiz. 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 You're very welcome.

00:02 Nice to see you.

00:04 Sit down.

00:06 Really good day.

00:10 It's been a great day.

00:12 Really fantastic to see you cross over.

00:14 I'm so pleased.

00:16 And everything you've done on housing etc.

00:18 is so important to us.

00:20 Delivery, delivery, delivery is your thing isn't it?

00:22 It is.

00:24 Under Rishis Yonahak he is the man who said he would stop the boats.

00:26 And yet when we look at this year alone

00:28 it's record numbers of small boats arrivals.

00:30 So he's not stopping the boats.

00:32 And he's letting the country down.

00:34 Meanwhile under Labour they are clear

00:36 that it is important to have defence

00:38 and they want to make sure

00:40 that they have good national security.

00:42 So I think we should have confidence

00:44 that Labour are the party who will tackle

00:46 this issue of the small boats crossings.

00:48 What I've said that I will do

00:50 and what I've been asked to do

00:52 is to contribute in the area of housing

00:54 which has been a long standing area of experience for me.

00:56 And it's absolutely vital

00:58 that we build the homes the country needs

01:00 because under Rishis Yonahak we've seen

01:02 house building simply collapse in this last year.

01:04 And going forward it looks like

01:06 it will be another missed manifesto

01:08 promise from the Conservatives.

01:10 Not 300,000 homes but probably half of that number.

01:12 I'm delighted to welcome Natalie Elphick

01:14 to the Labour Party.

01:16 She's got a strong track record

01:18 on issues such as housing.

01:20 She's on the front line

01:22 when it comes to the crisis of small boats.

01:24 And the reason that she's given

01:26 for joining the Labour Party

01:28 is very, very important

01:30 because I think she speaks for very many Tory voters

01:32 in saying that

01:34 the Tory party has changed.

01:36 It's left the centre ground.

01:38 But equally the Labour Party

01:40 has changed and we are

01:42 very clearly the party of the national interest

01:44 of country first, party second.

01:46 And I look forward to working with her

01:48 on the mission

01:50 to deliver the real change

01:52 that this country desperately needs.

01:54 There are very many Tory voters

01:56 who genuinely feel

01:58 that the party that they may have voted for

02:00 many, many times in some cases

02:02 is no longer the Tory party that they see.

02:04 And I say to every Tory voter

02:06 who feels that

02:08 they want to be part of a national mission

02:10 to change our country for the better

02:12 that the project we've built here

02:14 in this changed Labour Party

02:16 is a project that I hope they would feel

02:18 that they could get to the bottom of.

02:20 they would feel that they could get behind.

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