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Priti Patel promises “to the biggest overhaul of our asylum system in decades” with a new 'Fair Borders' bill and says she will “accelerate our operational response to illegal migration”
“No doubt those who are well-rehearsed in how to play and profit from the broken system will lecture us on their grand theories about human rights”
“Those defending the broken system – the traffickers, the do gooders, the leftie lawyers, the Labour Party – they are defending the indefensible”
Patel also said that people who cross the channel in boats are “shopping around for where they claim asylum” and “lining the pockets of despicable international criminal gangs”
She says the system is ”disregarding the vulnerable, elbowing women and children in need to the side”
She says the system is ”disregarding the vulnerable, elbowing women and children in need to the side”
@NickTorfaen ahead of the speech: “The British people will see through the home sec’s shameless comments about a ‘broken system’, when the system has been overseen by the Tories for a decade”
“This is yet more evidence of how lacking in compassion and competence the Tories are”
“This is yet more evidence of how lacking in compassion and competence the Tories are”
