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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Jitendra Joshi

Tories pledge to get grip on migration as they attack Labour small boats plan

The Government insisted on Friday it would get a grip on migration “in the fullness of time” as it attacked Labour’s plan to work more closely with Europe to stop Channel boats.

Sir Keir Starmer’s new plan will lead to 100,000 more migrants entering Britain as part of a burden-sharing arrangement with the European Union, Conservative ministers claim, even as they struggle to deliver on the Prime Minister’s pledge to “stop the boats”.

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