WATCH: Labour's handling of migrant crisis has 'let Britons down', top Tory tells GB News
Oct 28, 2025
Labour's plans to house asylum seekers in "pop-up buildings" on disused military sites has been branded a "huge admission of failure" by Alex Burghart.Speaking to GB News, the Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster hit out at the move, declaring there "shouldn't be a need" to house so many illegal migrants in Britain.FULL STORY HERE.
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Alex, you're going to force a vote in Parliament today on this whole Chinese spy case
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Now, if you hadn't been doing that, my friend, it's quite interesting. This would have gone, this would have disappeared, but the Conservatives are keeping this very much up front
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Why? Well, because this is one of the most shocking alleged spy cases in recent decades, Eamon
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I mean, we've seen two guys arrested for supposedly spying on British members of parliament
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And the government was asked for information that would have allowed the trial to progress
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And they refused to give that. And consequently, the case collapsed. And this is just absolutely shocking, because the idea that we've sent out a message to spies around the world
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It's fine, you can come here, you can spy on Westminster, you can spy on the people who represent British people
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It's just terrible. So we've been trying to get the government to explain exactly why it made the decision that it made
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But Alex, they would say they've come clean. Sorry, I've lost my earpiece statement
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Oh, sorry. They would say, Alex, they've already come clean. You are distinctly saying, no, you have not
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Yeah, well, they absolutely haven't. Firstly, they denied that this... There was a very important meeting on the 1st of September
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We heard that it had happened. Yeah, the press heard it had happened. We asked the Prime Minister whether it had happened
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Initially, he denied it. And then it turned out that it happened after all. And this was where the heads of lots of different government departments
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including the head of MI5, representatives from the Home Office, from the Foreign Office, from the Attorney-General's Office, got together
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And it was clear that... It's very clear to everyone that at that meeting, these sort of mega mandarins decided that they weren going to do what was necessary to allow the trial to progress Today we are going to force a vote in Parliament to get the minutes of that meeting published so we can understand exactly what was going on under the bonnet
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But somebody's got to take responsibility for the fact that these two men
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who are alleged to have been spying for China, haven't been put on trial
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And ultimately, it's the government that's got to take responsibility for that. What do you make of the government plans to house asylum seekers in military sites instead of hotels
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The Cameron Barracks in Inverness and the Krober Army Training Camp in East Sussex
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We're talking about almost 10,000 migrants the Home Office wants to place there
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Are you supportive of this plan? This is just a huge admission of failure
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The fact is that there shouldn't be a need for any of this because when we left office, when the Conservatives left office last summer
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we had the Rwanda plan in place, and the first thing that Keir Starmer did when he became Prime Minister was scrap it
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The first thing he did was scrap a deterrent programme which would have meant that people who crossed the Channel illegally
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came to our country illegally, their feet wouldn't have touched the ground, they would have been sent to a third country for processing
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That would have been a major deterrent to the gangs and to the people crossing. Instead, Labour tore that up, and here's the result
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They're having to use army barracks, having to use massive army barracks, to house thousands and thousands of people who've come to the country
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They've really let us down, and it's time that they admitted them
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I mean, RAF Stampton was being used by the Tory government. That's right
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That's one of the reasons why we passed the Rwanda plan in the first place
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why we had all of those battles with the courts to try and get the Rwanda plan in place
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so that we could cut off this terrible trade of people across the channel
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