The shadow immigration minister said Labour would ‘have no choice’ but to house asylum seekers in barges in order to deal with the ‘mess we inherit’ from the Tories.
has destroyed our asylum system. We’ll inherit a mess if we are privileged to win the next election.
‘The reality is, on day one we will have to deal with the we have and the shambolic mess they have left us. We’ll be left with no choice but to deal with the mess we inherit.’ He also told BBC Breakfast he was confident a Labour government would get on top of the backlog within six months – but refused to give a timeline on how long it would take them to stop using the barges.
Mr Kinnock also accused the government of ‘cooking the books’ to make it seem like they’re getting a grip on the asylum backlog.
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