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WATCH: Boris Johnson tears into Keir Starmer's 'pathetic' attempt at Albania migrant deal
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Sep 2, 2025
Boris Johnson has demanded Yvette Cooper to "swallow her pride" and implement the Rwanda plan to tackle Britain's migrant crisis.Speaking exclusively to GB News, the former Prime Minister declared it is "infuriating" to see a "brilliant British idea" being taken up by other countries.FULL STORY HERE.
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But also on security, part of our security is border security
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We don't seem to have much of that at the moment. We saw what the small boats crisis and migration more broadly
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Potter, that's down to you, did to the Tories. But Labour don't seem to be able to get a handle on it either
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What do you think is needed? Nigel Farage is talking about mass deportations, pulling out the ECHR
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Do we need to go that far? You know, just speaking as the Prime Minister who brought migration in the first full year of my premiership down to its lowest level for 40 years
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Then it went up to a million and they call it the Boris wave. And what you had then, of course, was the post-COVID
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You had lots of EU students coming back. You had the Ukrainians
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You had, and that was quite right. But what I also did was take back control of our borders
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So I took back legal control of everybody coming in legally. The problem by leaving the EU
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and if you remember, there were various models of Brexit on offer
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and the one that my immediate predecessor was offering was basically remaining in the single market That was no good because we didn get back control of our borders We got back full legal control and we had a plan which I think I announced only a couple of months
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before, tragically, I had to leave office in April 22 or thereabouts with the Rwanda plan
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and actually it is the right plan. It is, you know... And what's so infuriating is to watch a brilliant British idea
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which is what the Rwanda plan was, now being taken up by other countries
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America, for example. Yeah, America. And, I don't know, did you come on the Rwanda trip
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No. You should, it was amazing. I mean, people became... So we had all these sort of, you know, quite tough-egg lefty journalists
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the BBC and so on, and we showed them the accommodation that people were going to have in Rwanda under the plan
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and they melted. They could see that it made sense. And, you know, what it would have meant is, you know
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you arrive in one of these dinghies from Calais, whatever, from the French beaches
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and immediately no lawyers no pro you processed in Rwanda But the trouble was the Tories called the election before you could get the people on those parties So we never know Well Richard Sunak called the election
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I didn't call the election. I would have won the election. But now Nigel Farage has grabbed the microphone. Do you think Kemi Badenoch is going to be able to get a hearing
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They were on zero percent. Those guys were on zero percent. I know, but they're on over 30 now
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I know. I think what the... Seriously, what the government should do, what Yvette Cooper should do
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is swallow a lot of pride and implement the Rwanda plan. That's what they need to do
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They should go back to Kigali. They should say, look, we've goofed, we've made a big mistake
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It's not going to happen. We've spent a huge amount of money already on the deal
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700 million. But it's not going to happen. Well, why not? Will we have to? Well, because they're not going to do it now
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They've done plenty of other U-turns. They've done plenty of other U-turns. They did a U-turn on the winter fuel payment
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But do you think it will be necessary to pull out, ultimately, the ESAHR, the Refugee Convention
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all of these international agreements? Will we have to go that far Because the public are listening to Nigel Farage He making all sorts of promises Are the Conservatives going to be able to come back from this do you think Of course There no single thing you can do
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Leaving the ECHR on its own doesn't fix this, right? I think it does help in a lot of cases
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I've come round to it, definitely. But it's the Rwanda plan. It's the thought that you're sitting in Calais
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and you're thinking, what's going to happen to me when I arrive in Kent
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Am I going to get immediately taken to a hotel? Am I going to get..
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Are UK lawyers immediately going to hand me their cards saying, you've got a problem, ring me up
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Or am I going to find myself immediately flown to an East African, Central African country
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And I think it would be... That's what we need to do. and actually Chris Philp, the Conservative Shadow Home Secretary
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has I think done a very, very good job. Chris has done a very good job of holding the government to account on this
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and reminding them of their failure on Rwanda. I mean, Starmer was so pathetic
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As soon as he actually went to Albania, do you remember that thing when he went to Albania
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to try and do a Rwanda-style deal with Eddie Rama? And Eddie Rama told him to bog off, basically
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So that's what we need to do
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