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Coffee House Shots

Is Brexit safe under Keir Starmer?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

James Heale speaks to Isabel Hardman and Fraser Nelson about Rishi Sunak's response to the impending migration figures and whether Keir Starmer could be the man to 'make Brexit work'.

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0:19.0

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots.

0:21.0

I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by Fraser Nelson and Elizabeth Harbin.

0:25.0

Now Fraser, today he's received an exhibition in Japan signing the Hiroshima Record.

0:29.0

He's also been asked about migration by the library reporters who were accompanying him on his trip over there ahead of the G7 tomorrow.

0:35.0

Tell us about his comments and the context in which they're occurring.

0:39.0

Well, this is a bit of a sore point for Hiroshima.

0:42.0

The Tory manifesto said they would bring migration down.

0:45.0

And next week we're expecting gigantic migration numbers and a league of 700,000 or 800,000.

0:52.0

So this is a vast multiple of the tens of thousands figure which David Cameron promised,

0:57.0

but also Swallow Bravenman, the home secretary herself, reaffirmed her commitments to this.

1:02.0

So she will now be asked why, therefore, is the target seven or eight times what you said it would be.

1:08.0

Now, as soon as I come self, he's not a great believer in this because what effectively has happened is he has adopted a regime where he has agreed basically to listen to the police of business

1:20.0

who wants more migrants and in my view, well, for a form could have done a lot of that labor supply work,

1:27.0

but for every reason that's not being done.

1:29.0

And so, soon like I said, I've inherited some numbers I want to bring the numbers down.

1:35.0

Well, he's making a pretty bad job of that.

1:39.0

Now, you could argue by the way that the 700,000 net migration figure that was for all of last year, 2022.

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