Crystal Keir: Labour's Small Boats Plan
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Sir Keir Starmer seeks new deal with EU to stop smugglers.
Labour’s Emily Thornberry joins Adam and Chris to take us through what their plan is.
And, the government’s target to reduce the hospital waiting list in England is in doubt according to the prime minister. He was speaking to health editor Hugh Pym, who joins us, as does Saffron Cordery from NHS Providers.
00:00 Labour’s plan to stop small boat gangs 20:20 PM admits target to cut waiting times in doubt
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the most secure building in the Netherlands, |
| 0:07.7 | the offices of Europe Hall in the Hague. |
| 0:10.4 | Yes, that was a very fresh-faced me in 2013, |
| 0:14.6 | visiting the HQ in the Hague in the Netherlands, |
| 0:17.2 | of Europe Hall, the EU's law enforcement agency, |
| 0:20.9 | which shares information between all the member states. |
| 0:23.1 | Although you don't have to be a member state of the EU |
| 0:24.7 | to be involved, the USA in Canada and Serbia, |
| 0:28.0 | stick the role in sometimes as well. |
| 0:29.8 | And when I was there, oh, actually, 10 years ago, |
| 0:32.8 | they took me on a little tour |
| 0:34.0 | and I saw things like their mocked-up meth lab |
| 0:37.2 | and other drug paraphernalia. |
| 0:39.2 | This is a typical indoor cannabis cultivation tent. |
| 0:43.2 | Then I found out that one of the things they were doing |
| 0:45.4 | was fighting counterfeit food, |
| 0:47.4 | which you might hear I was a little bit skeptical about. |
| 0:49.9 | Every kind of products can be counterfeit. |
| 0:52.1 | Counterfeit food, how does that work? |
| 0:53.9 | Fick. |
| 0:54.6 | Well, you have free or something like that, what? |
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