Priti Patel: Turning the tide on the migrant crisis?
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The Times
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🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In her two years as Home Secretary, Priti Patel has cultivated an image as a hardliner on immigration. Despite all her tough talk, the extent to which she's achieved anything concrete is debatable, and this summer has seen record numbers of migrants crossing the channel. With the Nationality and Borders Bill -- a radical overhaul of asylum laws -- making its way through parliament, will Patel finally get the crackdown she's been gunning for?
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
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| 0:21.0 | Make your train journey via vantewescoast.co.uk, a vantewescoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:36.3 | In her two years as home secretary, Prissy Patel has cultivated an image as a hard liner |
| 0:41.5 | on immigration. |
| 0:42.5 | She's willing to do whatever it takes to secure the country's borders, and dare we say it, |
| 0:48.3 | take back control. |
| 0:49.3 | It's right that we go after the criminals, the perpetrators of illegal migration, the |
| 0:54.5 | perpetrators of exploitation, and also we want to ensure that quite frankly our asylum |
| 0:59.0 | system is not being abused by those quite frankly who are not genuine asylum seekers. |
| 1:03.4 | But with record numbers of migrants crossing the channel this summer, the extent to which |
| 1:08.0 | she's achieved anything concrete is debatable. |
| 1:11.6 | For weeks, rumors swirled that she'd lose her job in an imminent cabinet reshuffle. |
| 1:17.0 | She was thought she may have to hand back her home secretary, Brandon Anorak, and to |
| 1:20.2 | hand over the keys to the port of Dover. |
| 1:23.0 | But she's a reshuffle survivor. |
| 1:23.8 | I know that my right-on-the-home secretary is working around the clock to ensure that |
| 1:29.6 | we not only encourage the French to stiffen their sinews and stop people making the journey, |
| 1:34.1 | but we use every possible tactic that is available to us as well. |
| 1:38.5 | So the PM's faith in her continues. |
| 1:41.0 | Faith's surely to pass the brand new nationality and borders bill through Parliament, an overhaul |
| 1:46.8 | of the UK's immigration system. |
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