Sir Keir Starmer's latest immigration plan will do "nothing" to stop small boats crossing the English Channel, Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick has claimed.
In a scathing attack on the Labour Government, Jenrick told GB News that the Prime Minister's announcement on the latest white paper "looked like a hostage situation", where he was "reading words written for him".
"I watched Keir Starmer's press conference yesterday, and frankly, I didn't believe a word of it," Jenrick told GB News.
"It looked like a hostage situation where he was reading out words that somebody else had written for him."
Jenrick hit out at Keir Starmer's latest migration policy, claiming he 'doesn't believe a word he says'
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The Shadow Justice Secretary claimed the Prime Minister's true beliefs were at odds with his public statements on immigration: "We know what he believes, his life, his career, his whole world view is about open borders."
The Tory MP accused the Prime Minister of being "serially dishonest", stating: "He's just another politician telling lies, saying that he thinks the public wants to hear but not taking any action."
"Nothing he said yesterday is going to stop the boats."
He continued: "It's not going to bring down legal migration to the historic levels that we want to see."
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Sir Keir Starmer claimed the 'one nation experiment' on 'open borders' is 'over'PAJenrick also claimed the plan would fail to address the issue of illegal immigrants currently in the UK.
"It's not going to get the one million people in our country who are here illegally out of our country, deport them," he said.
He further criticised the Government's approach to foreign criminals, claiming the plan wouldn't "get the 12,000 foreign criminals in our prisons, out of our prisons, out of our country."
Jenrick called for two key policy changes to address immigration issues: "What we're saying is that a legally binding cap [is needed] so that people can have confidence that this time people actually mean it."
Jenrick told GB News that Keir Starmer is 'serially dishonest'
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Jenrick also referenced the Prime Minister's leadership campaign promises: "He stood to be leader of the Labour Party on a platform of restoring free movement and said that immigration was an unalloyed good for this country."
He urged Starmer to "get out of Westminster" to understand public sentiment on immigration. "It is time for action. That is what the public want now," he insisted.
The Shadow Justice Secretary concluded with a warning of current immigration's impact on British society.
Jenrick said: "It's putting massive pressure on housing, on public services. It's undercutting the wages of British workers and making this country poorer, and it's making us less united.
"People are feeling disorientated by the fact that some communities are changing beyond all recognition. The pace of change is too fast."
In an exclusive interview with GB News, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper vowed to slash "100,000 visas" in a bid to take back control of Britain’s borders.
Speaking to the People’s Channel, the Home Secretary said: “Already we’re reducing the visas that we’re issuing, that’s already happening. Already we’re increasing returns - enforced returns are up more than 20 per cent since the election.
"And these measures go further. For example, some of the measures around working visas the skilled-workers visa, the care worker visa, the settlement rules, and the English language rules - those together would mean a reduction of 100,000 fewer visas, or fewer people arriving, just as a result of those measures."
