Michelle Dewberry slaps down Labour Minister Jake Richards as she unleashes tirade on how Britons’ are concerned for their safety | GB NEWS
Watch the tense exchange between Michelle Dewberry and a Labour minister as the pair locked horns on women’s safety in Britain.
Justice Minister and MP for Rother Valley Jake Richards joined the People’s Channel after analysis showed that foreign criminals are being deported in a bid to free up space in prisons up and down the country.
The presenter put it to the minister that “many viewers feel Labour is putting women and girls at risk in the country”.
But Mr Richards was quick to insist that Labour “takes police advice very seriously in relation to the small boat crisis”, citing the Home Secretary’s sweeping overhaul of asylum legislation last month.
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He added: “We’ve got to try and clamp down on that small boat crisis.
“Today, the other news, Michelle, is that this Government has now deported more foreign national offenders than ever before.”
But Michelle was not satisfied with his response, interjecting: “And most of them have gone off their own accord, and many of them, we’ve had to pay for the privilege.”
Mr Richards hit back, adding: “Sorry to interrupt, but, Michelle, you say pay for the privilege.
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“What I don’t want to do, Michelle, is have people who come to our country commit offences, and we end up having to pay for them to serve time in prison.
“Where we can, we should be getting them out of the country and return them to where they came from. And that’s what this Government is doing.”
Citing a 74 per cent jump on Conservative figures last year, he added: “We’ll continue to do that with more measures to make it easier and quicker to get rid of foreign national offenders coming into Parliament next year.”
But Michelle, again, did not seem satisifed, firing back: “My viewers and I don’t really care about the Conservatives and what they did to us. They’re gone.
