Home Secretary Yvette Cooper refuses to set a timetable on solving small boats crisis

Despite almost 35,000 Channel landings this year, the Home Secretary has declined to provide a timeline for resolving the small boat situation.

Cooper, YvetteAlthough acknowledging that the number is excessively large, they would not set a timeline to lower it.

“What we’re not going to do is deal with this by slogans,” she told the BBC.

“Prime ministers and home secretaries have a habit of making lofty claims without ever having a plan.

According to Ms. Cooper, she is adopting a methodical strategy that will involve law enforcement and robust returns agreements.

She maintained that the absence of a goal did not negate the importance of migration.

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Furthermore, even though the Labour Government eliminated the Conservative Rwanda program, she did not rule out processing asylum cases in a third country.

Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, stated yesterday that a deterrence is necessary to stop the boats.

Law enforcement is insufficient on its own.

He likened the Rwandan plan to a comparable one that, according to him, totally halted boats from Indonesia to Australia.

Angela Eagle, the minister of the home office, added Wednesday that it was impossible to determine the number of unauthorized migrants in the UK.

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