Chirs Philp Shadow home secretary Chris Philp condemns Labour's plans to bring down the number of asylum seekers

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Mr Philp told Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips: “We want no illegal immigration whatsoever.”He added: “We need to have a cap on legal inward migration each year, so the numbers are very, very dramatically lower."

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00:00in saying that the government gives the appearance being weak and divided and brotherless and chaotic

00:04in a death spiral. Of course, your party would know all about that, because that's exactly where

00:09you spent several years. What's your advice to Keir Starmer? Well, we've obviously as a party

00:14moved on from that, and we're now united behind our leader. But clearly, the Labour Party are

00:19unable to do that. They are fighting like rats in a sack. You've got Keir Starmer briefing against

00:23Wes Streeting. You've got Angela Rayner sharpening the knives in the background. Goodness knows what

00:28Bridget Philipson and Lucy Powell are both up to. Instead of serving the national interest,

00:33the Labour government are fighting each other just weeks away from a budget that will unleash

00:38enormous tax rises on this country that will drive up unemployment even further. It's just a

00:43sort of five-year high already. Instead of serving the national interest, they are fighting each

00:48other, and they should get a grip of themselves.

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