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Hello, I'm Alicia McCarthy and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Monday the 10th of February, where the Home Secretary outlines measures to target people smugglers sending asylum seekers across the channel.

It is a border surrender bill. It is a weak bill. It is a... to target people smugglers sending asylum seekers across the channel.

It is a border surrender bill. It is a weak bill. It is a weak bill from a weak government.

Also on this program, MPs call for changes to inheritance tax plans for farms.

We're all aware of the challenges, the mental health challenges, that those in the farming community are facing anyway, this has made it worse. But first, the Home Secretary has set out government plans to tackle

the gangs that traffic people across the English Channel. Yvette Cooper said the border security,

asylum and immigration bill would strengthen the powers that could be used against what she called

ruthless and devious criminals. Among the proposals moves to allow law enforcement agencies

to use counter-terror style strategies to tackle the people smugglers and new powers making it

illegal to organise the buying, selling or transport of small boat parts in an effort to tackle the problem across the supply chain.

The home secretary said she wanted to restore order to the asylum and immigration system.

Six years ago, barely a handful of boats crossed the channel.

300 people arrived by small boats in 2018.

Within four years, that had risen to more than 30,000.

A hundredfold increase, not just undermining our border security,

but putting huge numbers of lives at risk.

The longest serving female MP, Labour's Diane Abbott, interrupted.

She has a danger of sounding like she is trying to stigmatise desperate migrants rather than building a fair system.

Yvette Cooper said there had to be a fair and effective system and the rules needed to be respected and enforced. And she said no one should be making the dangerous journey in small boats

and being exploited by criminals making huge profits. Hundreds of millions of pounds they are making

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