Yvette Cooper Delivers Brutal Commons Slapdown To Chris Philp Over The Tories' Immigration Failures

Yvette Cooper and Chris Philp in the Commons.Yvette Cooper delivered a brutal slapdown to Chris Philp after he called on her to apologise to the country for the ongoing small boats crisis.The home secretary reminded her Tory opposite number of his own government’s failures as they clashed in the Commons.Philp had criticised the migrant returns deal Keir Starmer struck with Emmanuel Macron last week, which will see France accept some illegal immigrants from the UK.He also condemned Cooper for scrapping the Rwanda scheme, even though it never forcibly deported a single asylum seeker to Africa.Philp told MPs the home secretary had “presided over the highest number of illegal small boat crossings in history”.“Will she now apologise to the House and to the country for her appalling failure?”, he added.But Cooper pointed out that 128,000 migrants had crossed the Channel under the Tories, and none were ever returned to France.She said: “As for the agreement with France, which he does not seem to want to talk about very much, I asked him about exactly that back in 2020, when I was chair of the home affairs committee and he was immigration minister.“I specifically asked ‘what chance do you put on being able to get a bilateral agreement, say with France, for them to take back people who have arrived here from France’.“He said—this was five years ago—that that was what he was working on. Indeed, he told the committee ‘one of our priorities will be to reach those agreements and it is, I think, strongly in the French national interest to agree such a returns agreement. That gives me significant cause for optimism’.“Well, it turns out that he should have been optimistic—about the return of a Labour government, reaching an agreement where he had failed.”Cooper added: “The Conservatives never understood that it is not possible to change things simply by jumping up and down and shouting about them. It needs partnership working and hard graft, and that is what this government have done.”Yvette Cooper reveals that Chris Philp(Tory MP) was working on a returns agreement with France, back in 2020, when he was immigration minister. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/yKE71UMg7J— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) July 14, 2025Related...Emmanuel Macron Blames Brexiteers For Small Boats Crisis After Striking Migrant Deal With StarmerWhat Is Expected To Be In Starmer And Macron's 'One-In, One-Out' Migrant Deal?Chris Philp Dismissed Starmer's Migrant Deal As A 'Gimmick'. Then He Was Reminded About Rwanda

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