Tory leader says ‘we sometimes need to have tough words’ and that everyone working for party ‘needs to be fully dedicated to the mission’
Yvette Cooper told LBC that she did not believe the Conservative party had any credibility on migration.
In her phone-in, asked about the plans announced by Kemi Badenoch today, Cooper did not comment on the detail of what the Conservatives are saying but instead just attacked their record. She said:
I just can’t take seriously a single word they say.
They said all sorts of things, and then they quadrupled net migration in the space of four years. They totally lost control of our borders, and on the Channel, they saw this huge increase in boat crossings [and] every time they said they were going to do something, the opposite happened.
