Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has met Italian coastguards working with the new UK Border Security Commander at the coordination centre in Rome. 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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00:00I'm here to have discussions here at this Coordination Centre and with the Prime Minister
00:05about how we deal with unlawful migration.
00:09And here there's been some quite dramatic reductions, so I want to understand how that
00:12came about.
00:14It looks as though that's down to the upstream work that's been done in some of the countries
00:18where people are coming from.
00:19I've long believed, by the way, that prevention and stopping people travelling in the first
00:23place is one of the best ways to deal with this particular issue, so I'm very interested
00:28to know how that upstream work went.
00:30Looking of course at other schemes, looking forward to my bilateral with the Prime Minister
00:34this afternoon, but we've already got a shared intent to work together on this trade, this
00:41vile trade of pushing people across borders.