Home secretary James Cleverly visits West Sussex

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The home secretary was on the election trail in Crawley today (June 13) door-knocking in the Northgate area and supporting Crawley Conservative candidate Zack Ali

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00:00Mr Kedley, can I just ask you, what's the biggest issue you've found on the doorstep

00:04that people are bringing up with you?

00:06Well, I think a number of things. The cost of living has been really hard.

00:11That's why we've focused so relentlessly on bringing down inflation,

00:14so that people don't see the rises in food and bills that they've seen

00:20over the last couple of years. That's meant that we're being able to address that concern.

00:25Obviously, because I'm the Home Secretary, people bring up

00:28things like border control. They bring up policing and crime.

00:33That's, again, why we've committed to, in addition to the 20,000 officers that

00:37we've already recruited, an additional 8,000 neighbourhood-based officers.

00:44And, yeah, high streets. People want to feel safe on the high streets,

00:47which is why Katie, which is why Zach and I, we've been talking to people

00:52about making sure that we've got police officers embedded in the local community.

00:55Retail crime action plan, cracking down on shoplifting and antisocial behaviour.

00:59Those are the kind of things that people bring up.

01:02Yeah. How concerned do you think people are about immigration and stopping the boats?

01:07It's a big issue. People want to know that everyone's playing by the rules.

01:12And that's what this is really about. They want to know people are playing by the rules,

01:16and they don't want immigration policy defined by people smugglers.

01:22They want the government to get a grip of that.

01:23That's why we've committed to stopping the boats. That's why we're

01:27investing time and effort and money working on both sides of the channel

01:31and also with international law enforcement agencies.

01:35And one of the things I find really disappointing is that, for example, our Rwanda plan,

01:40which is an important deterrent against people smuggling,

01:43Labour have voted against that over 130 times.

01:48They are not serious about border control.

01:51And a vote for anyone other than Conservatives,

01:53whether it's Lib Dems or Reform or Green or anyone else,

01:56will hold the door open to our borders.

02:00And that's just not good enough.

02:02Thank you.

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