Will Rishi's immigration plan work?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Max Jeffery speaks to Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls.
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| 0:19.2 | Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots. The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm Max Geoffrey and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and Fraser Nelson. |
| 0:28.0 | Rishi Sunack unveiled today his five-point plan to tackle legal immigration. Katie, can you tell us the |
| 0:33.4 | details? Yes, so this is Rishi Sunack's first step in the small boat situation which he said is |
| 0:40.9 | the thing he's going to have to focus most of his time on. He's also quite notable that he's |
| 0:44.3 | taking personal responsibility from it. So, Rowland, a lot of this coming from the homes actually |
| 0:50.4 | is about a brave man. It's something that the Prime Minister wants to own which I think reflects |
| 0:55.0 | why the fact it's seen as such an important issue whether you look weak or strong in it in terms |
| 0:59.6 | of a party's electrability. So, today, Rishi Sunack was laying out all the non-legitative measures |
| 1:05.9 | so things that don't need to be done for your legislation, for your vote, and this involves. |
| 1:11.3 | So, a dedicated unit of 400 specialists are going to be set up to handle claims from Albanians which |
| 1:18.5 | are a large chunk of the current number arriving here. 700 staff for a new unit to monitor |
| 1:24.9 | small boats crossing the English Channel. Sunack has also said that he plans to house 10,000 |
| 1:30.4 | asylum seekers waiting on claims in disused holiday parks, former student halls and surplus |
| 1:35.7 | military sites. I think this is partly because of the level of public outrage when it came to the |
| 1:41.8 | talk of how much taxpayer money was being spent on hotels per night for those arriving. So, |
| 1:48.0 | I think this is trying to take it, you know, say it's not actually remaining hotels going forward. |
| 1:52.5 | And when he was going through the measures, I think Rishi Sunack, he doesn't, this will have |
| 1:58.0 | a notable effect and will help clear the UK's backlog of asylum seekers by the end of next year. |
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