Will Labour's Plan To Stop Small Boat Crossings Work?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Today, we discuss Home Office plans to tackle migrant smuggling gangs. The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told Chris the changes would mean the government endangering lives at sea is to be a new criminal offence. He and Adam are joined by home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani. And, RFK Jr, President Trump’s pick for health secretary has been questioned by senators about his views on vaccines before a vote on his selection. Social media investigations correspondent Marianna Spring goes through the answers. Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn, Shiler Mahmoudi and Nancy Geddes. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, all through the election campaign, Kier Sama said that he would smash the gangs, |
| 0:10.0 | who he said were responsible for bringing people across the English Channel in small boats. |
| 0:14.7 | That was his version of Stop the Boats, which is what Rishi Sunak tried to do and didn't do that well. |
| 0:20.2 | We've now got details of how he is going to smash the gangs |
| 0:23.8 | and specifically how the government will take the same approach |
| 0:26.8 | as they do to terrorism to this problem. |
| 0:29.3 | We will unpick all the details on this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:33.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
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| 0:49.5 | Take me down to Downing Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio, |
| 0:56.1 | and shortly in this episode, we're going to cross over to Washington, D.C., because R.F.K. Jr. |
| 1:01.3 | is being grilled by senators as he tries to get confirmed as Donald Trump's pick for being |
| 1:07.3 | the House Secretary in the U.S. And it has been the opposite of dull, although |
| 1:12.2 | not necessarily brought a lot of clarity. But we'll see what's been going on nonetheless. But first |
| 1:17.8 | of all, we're going to talk about the new legislation that the government has introduced on Thursday, |
| 1:21.9 | which is paving the way for their new approach to dealing with the small boats in the English |
| 1:26.2 | channel. And that is to treat |
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