NATO and European Political Community Meetings

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am 2:45 pm ar 22 Gorffennaf 2024.

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Photo of Keir Starmer Keir Starmer Leader of the Labour Party, The Prime Minister 2:45, 22 Gorffennaf 2024

This is a real problem that we have inherited because not enough attention has been paid to border control in my view. Record numbers have come this year. The measures taken by the last Government were patently not working, so we need to address that. That is why we have taken early steps to set up the border security command. It is also why we have already moved more staff into the returns unit, so it can get on with the job of actually returning those who have no right to be here. One hundred staff have moved already in the early days of this Government, but we have to recognise that we also need to address the reasons that people move in the first place, which are very much to do with conflict, poverty and climate change. If we ignore those upstream causes, we will never fully get to grips with the problem that is so obvious to so many people in this country.