Badenoch: Govt has no plan to reduce small boat crossings

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Kemi Badenoch says the Conservative Party's immigration policies are "much tighter" than before and that exit checks are needed. The party leader's comments come after a cross-party committee of MPs said the Home Office had failed to check whether foreign workers were leaving the UK or staying to work illegally. She adds that small boat crossings have increased under Labour and "everything is getting worse". 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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00:00Well, we haven't had exit checks in decades. I'm talking about 40-plus years.

00:05This is something that needs to change. We've changed our policy on that.

00:08One of the things that I want people to know is the Conservative Party is under new management.

00:12Our immigration policies are much tighter. We want things like exit checks.

00:16We need to disapply the Human Rights Act. We've said that we need to stop that fast track to British citizenship.

00:22You shouldn't just be able to become a British citizen so easily.

00:26Changing indefinitely is to remain, which is one of the ways that that happens.

00:29There's a lot that we're changing on immigration policy.

00:32But what we're seeing with Labour is that the small boat crossings have increased every week.

00:37They have no plan. We have the Rwanda plan, a deterrent, which was to process them in a different country.

00:43And if they passed, they would stay there. They scrapped that plan after all the effort we put into it.

00:47They said they were going to smash the gangs. No gang has been smashed. Everything's getting worse.

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