Sir Keir Starmer says Labour would scrap the government's Rwanda scheme, labelling it a "waste of taxpayers' money". The Labour leader adds a new Border Security Command would help take down people-smuggling gangs in the first place. Report by Brooksl. 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 I think everybody wants to end this file trade of people coming over on small
00:05 boats and I think therefore you know absolutely bringing this down I'm not
00:11 going to put an arbitrary number on it but I'm not going to not rise to the
00:15 challenge which is we've got to end this file trade that will only be done with a
00:19 serious proposition and not a gimmick which is why I set out today the command
00:25 structure that we want in place to deal with this. I accept the challenge which
00:29 is we've got to stop the boats we've got to end this file trade. I genuinely
00:33 believe that the only way to do that is with a serious serious setup to smash
00:39 the gangs in the first place and stop people arriving. We're going to scrap the
00:43 scheme it's extremely expensive it's a waste of taxpayers money but we're going
00:47 to rise to this challenge I'm not suggesting for a moment that this
00:51 doesn't matter nobody should be making that journey across the channel and any
00:54 any serious government will combat that but what I was saying today is I don't
00:59 want politics, I've had too much politics of gestures and gimmicks. I've had serious business of
01:04 politics and dealing with this is much more mundane it's rolling up our
01:08 sleeves and saying we need a border security command to take these gangs
01:12 down in the first place.