WATCH: Bev Turner slams Keir Starmer's use of language in migration speech

He spoke at 8.30 this morning, the Prime Minister Mark

and we've been sort of mulling over the detail of what he was saying this morning

There isn't a huge amount of detail. There's very little that you can hold him to reckoning on

further down the line, but it was the kind of speech that I thought if Nigel Farage used some of those words

there would be national outcry. An island of strangers. Well, that was a key one, wasn't it

We're in danger of becoming an island of strangers. He spent the whole speech really talking up the contribution that migrants have made to the country, while at the same time telling us that in recent years, the balance has changed with many migrants not contributing as they should to the economy and actually driving down wages, which, of course, is a driver behind the government's ambition to try to get net migration down

But key to this is, it seems, trying to encourage British employers to recruit from the pool here in the UK and not to just constantly go for cheap labour overseas

But that's easier said than done. You've got to then get British workers to want to take these jobs

You've got to get British employers to invest more in training and apprenticeships for many people here in this country as well

which increasingly we have seen a sort of move away from as they go for sort of more skilled labour from overseas

to come over and do the job on a cheaper basis Was it a misstep or an oversight that he didn mention the small boats at all in the speech He was going to be telling particularly as you breaking news today

12,000 people arrived illegally this year. Yeah. Another record. Well, listen, his speech, he wanted really to focus on

the issues around legal migration, but they're all intertwined. Yeah. The small boats crisis is the most visible manifestation

of the immigration crisis as a whole. It's what people see as individuals breaking into our country

circumventing our borders to then, in many cases, perhaps abuse the asylum system with a view to getting to stay in the UK

It's a highly contentious issue. And yes, you're right, on that very day that he brings forth these new plans

we can confirm that 12,000 small boat migrants have now crossed since the beginning of the year

That's well over 35% up on where we were this time last year

In fact, this time last year, it was June before we hit 10,000 migrants

who'd crossed the English Channel. We know this is all because of reform, because I was just checking

He had something called, in his manifesto, he had mission statement, first steps, milestones

That was the last one, the milestones, were in December, eight milestones

didn't mention cutting elite migration. No mention of it, Mark. He's only doing this, this North London Liberal lawyer

because of the reform surge in the polls. Well, we can say that the white paper has been months in gestation

It might be argued and you may well have a strong point here that it assumed a new priority and perhaps some of the measures in the White Paper have been sort of stepped up

in the light of the successes that reform has been having. There's no doubt, just listening to the language there

you know, it was a tougher language in terms of what he wants to do

in reducing the number of migrants who are coming across here who are not skilled and who are, as the Prime Minister believes

pulling the wages down, the wages down because they're coming in and doing the jobs cheaper

I mean, it was... What's interesting, I think, and I've had a copy of the white paper through

so I'm just going to start pouring through that now, to see the detail

I've got a briefing a little later as well. There wasn't much detail in what the Prime Minister said

Some of it has been briefed out, obviously, over the weekend. But we know already that we are on a downward trajectory

whatever this government might say, because of policies that the previous government introduced

around stopping students from bringing their dependents over and stopping many other employed sectors

from bringing dependents over, from raising the threshold for salaries for certain skilled jobs

So it's going down. and it's estimated, I think, that these changes

might bring it down on our 50, 60, 70,000, but we're still talking, you know, several hundreds of thousands

maybe half a million net migration this year when the figures come out a week on Thursday That nowhere near enough as far as most people in the country Well it was interesting was it Because he gave this very anti speech based on this white paper And it was the final question from one of the reporters who said

to him, would he disapply the ECHR to appeals to remain in this country? And he said, no

And he stepped right back into his human rights lawyer's shoes, didn't he? He stepped right

back into his legal shoes. And he said, no, because we have to fulfil our obligations on

the global legal stage. And we're like, well, that, my friend, is who you are

Why are you still pretending that you're not? North London Liberal Lawyer. But this is what you're up against

And it was the same with the previous government. They wouldn't step away from that either, because they're all being instructed by lawyers

within the governmental departments who are telling them that you can't do that. Can't do that, Minister

So they don't. And then you have a system whereby those who are advocating on behalf of migrants, illegal migrants and asylum seekers, have really got their act together over the last decade and are now very well versed in being able to apply the most obscure legislation to their appeals with a way to ensuring that their clients get leave to remain in this country

We've seen ridiculous examples about that, with chicken nuggets being cited as a reason to stay and alike

But the fact is, generally speaking, these lawyers now, migration lawyers, human rights advocates

working on behalf of these migrants, are able to ensure that these people are allowed to stay

because of the fact that, in many cases, they can't go back to their home country

because it just wouldn't be safe. Thank you, Mark