Starmer calls Tory claim UK would accept 100,000 EU migrants per year under Labour ‘embarrassing nonsense’– as it happened

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Rishi Sunak has claimed that 100,000 EU migrants could come to the UK every year under the approach outlined by Labour today. Keir Starmer says he would negotiate a returns deal with the EU, and he has not ruled out this involving the UK having to agree to take in a proportion of refugees.

Speaking to reporters in Devon, Sunak said:

Keir Starmer spent all of this year voting against our stop the boats bill, the toughest legislation that any government has passed to tackle illegal migration.

I think he spent most of last year voting against a previous bill which has since then led to almost 700 arrests related to organised immigration crime, so I don't think it's credible that he really wants to grip this problem.

The NHS has been looking at the issue of Raac since 2019 and was funded with almost 700m to mitigate Raac that it was finding in hospitals.

There are now seven hospitals that are in the new hospital programme; as new evidence came to light about the scale of Raac it was important to prioritise those hospitals.