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Emmanuel Macron 'has a better understanding of why migrants are coming to the UK than Keir Starmer', Stringer says
Aug 5, 2025
Sir Keir Starmer has been warned by a Labour MP that migrants "will keep coming" to Britain unless they are "convinced" that they will be removed from the UK upon arrival.Speaking to GB News, Graham Stringer told host Martin Daubney that Britons "lost their patience a long time ago" with the escalating migrant crisis.FULL STORY HERE.
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One in, one out. It's 18 in, one out at the very, very maximum
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I know that you're not a fool. Is the Prime Minister a fool
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Is he taking us for fools? Well, I wouldn't call my Prime Minister a fool
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But what I think on this issue, President Macron has a better understanding
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of why people are coming to the United Kingdom than the Prime Minister does
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People are coming here because they can jump our queues on housing, the health service
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They can get employed either legally or not legally. And they're going to keep coming until they believe that they're not going to be able to do those things
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And they're going to be sent back from where they came. And until we do that so that they're convinced there is no point taking the dangerous crossing across the Channel
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I'm afraid these people are unwanted by the British population. They are causing us serious problems
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And until they believe that they're not going to succeed when they come to this country they will keep on coming Well Graeme Stringer the big question is how long is a piece of string How many people will be returned We won even be told The Labour government won even tell us
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how many will go back on this. Could be 50 a week. We don't know
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What we do know is sometimes we're getting 1,000 a day. This is the pea shooter versus the tank, isn't it
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It is. I mean, I talk to people in my constituency elsewhere in the country
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and people are very angry. I think Catherine said that people had run out of patience
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They ran out of patience some time ago. They really want the government to solve this problem
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It is a problem. It can't be wished away. It is not helpful if ministers go on television
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and say that these boats are full of frail women and children
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They're not. They're full of young men who are coming here for a variety of reasons
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sometimes, as I say, to cheat the health service and jump the queue in housing
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So we have to stop them. And I don't know what numbers will be stopped
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I think the Prime Minister recently said this isn't another gimmick. There is an implication there that the previous proposals were gimmicks But I don I repeating myself we have to convince people who want to come here illegally that they not going to be allowed to stay
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And until we do that, then things are likely to get worse
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rather than better. But there was a solution in place when you came into power
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for all of its flaws. It was called Rwanda. I don't believe that. We scrapped it on day one
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We never found out. Well, that's true. It was scrapped on day one
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But again, I don't think people believed that they were going to be sent to Rwanda
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There were all sorts of legal complications with that. I had a good look at the law on that
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I've never seen such a disgraceful act of Parliament that declared by law in the United Kingdom that Rwanda was a safe country
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Well, no serious court is going to take that at face value
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So it wouldn't have worked legally. I doubt if he would have done what I am saying needs to be done
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that he would persuade people that they wouldn't come here. So I didn't accept that
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I think it's only when people are stopped at the border, taken into custody and sent back will we solve this Graham could I ask you a direct question I know that you care about this issue and I know you get it I sincerely believe you get this Your constituents tell you
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and a great many of your fellow MPs in the Labour Party also get it
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But a great many don't. In fact, I put it to you, a great many of your own MPs are diametrically opposed
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to controlling borders. They're very pro-open borders. They're pro-immigration. Is the Labour Party's Achilles heel
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the fundamental problem you're facing here, It's the same as the Conservatives faced with Brexit
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You had half the party that agreed, half the party that didn't, and never the twain shall meet
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I don't think it's quite as bad as that. I want the Labour Party to succeed
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But I think there are some ministers, I'll say I mentioned one minister who basically was hallucinating
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when he saw the boats coming over and imagining men and women in those boats
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I think there are some people, as you say, who believe in open borders
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They didn't want us to leave the European Union. But the fact is, and I think most politicians are practical people
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certainly when it comes to votes for themselves, when they realise how serious the electorate are about this issue
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then it will be a very dangerous situation for individual MPs and the Labour Party unless we solve this problem
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