clearly a big issue in rotherham. >> yeah. and it is a big issue in bolsover.step. and one of the things in bolsover is that they saw the rwanda scheme as an absolute gimmick. £700 million to get four people to rwanda that went there voluntarily, 300 million voluntarily. it's everybody saw it as a gimmick and what they want is people actually taking the change that we need. so what we have done is we've got 100 specialist investigators that are looking at tackling the gangs. we've also now got martin hewitt in place, a new border security commander, and we all we've had 12 flights in two months. we get elected in july, in august, the very next month, we've got the biggest ever return flight. this is what government and real change looks like. no more gimmicks, actual action. >> i mean, you left the situation in a right mess, didn't you? i mean, you couldn't. you had this pledge. stop the boats. you just couldn't do it. you made no progress . the numbers kept going up. >> the waiting list was coming down, were coming down. we had the deterrent. that meant that 3

when the very worst crimes were committed, when young girls were groomed and raped four years in rotherham rochdale, and nothing happened —— for years. rochdale, and nothing happened —— foryears. nothing rochdale, and nothing happened —— for years. nothing happened because those in charge were scared of being called racists, and then the system hid behind the human rights act and failed to deport the child abusers and allowed them to walk the streets where their victims live. well, enough. i am where their victims live. well, enough. iam not where their victims live. well, enough. i am not afraid. this stealthy poisoning of our society needs to stop. the liberal democrats are not going to defend our country. unlike the left, we know right from wrong. but we allowed ourselves to be bound by aggressive identity politics by a treasury whose rules were written by gordon brown and a legal system re—engineered by tony blair. you might think tony blair and gordon brown were defeated in 2010 but the truth is, the left never left. it's time to make a change. ministers need to be able to make decisi

is that andy burnham and steve rotherham at the labour party conference, led a letter that was signeder, saying keep her safe, keep her on. i think michael crick they were a big fan of her because the boys is their term. the lads around. keir starmer were no fan of andy burnham. the problem is with the labour party constantly is it is ridiculously factional. yes, if you're not in our club we don't want to hear from you. and that was what i always and that was one of their best assets. >> but they fear him. >> but they fear him. >> well, you would assume so. but also they fear him, potentially a threat. >> they fear him because he's popular, which is. you make the point. starmer has never been popular. andy burnham is hugely popular, telegenic, looks good and he i wrote last week. he begged number 10. don't get rid of her. >> that's absolutely true. and i think there was one mayor that didn't want to sign it. he was a bit worried about how it would look. and he's quite a close ally of rachel reeves. so therefore maybe didn't want to rock the boat a bit too much. >> we're getting a pict

when the very worst crimes were committed, when young girls were groomed and raped for years in rotherham and rochdale and nothing happened . and nothing nothing happened. and nothing happened because those in charge were scared of being called racists. and then the system hid behind the human rights act and failed to deport the child abusers and allowed them to walk the streets where their victims live well enough . i am not live well enough. i am not afraid . afraid. of this stealthy poisoning of our society needs to stop . and let's face it, the to stop. and let's face it, the liberal democrats are not going to defend our country. unlike the left, we know right from wrong, but we allowed ourselves to be bound by aggressive identity politics, by a treasury whose rules were written by gordon brown and a legal system re—engineered by tony blair. you may think blair and brown were defeated in 2010, but the truth is, the left never left. it's time to make a. change. ministers need to be able to make decisions that aren't endlessly challenged in the courts. if people don't like those decisio

sarah champion , of rotherham and sarah champion, of rotherham and fabian hamilton, leeds north eastlso mark sewards, the mp for leeds south west, and morley clive betts of sheffield south and derek twigg of widnes and halewood. now there are others like hilary benn, who abstained on that vote, but all of them voted to take the winter fuel payment away from pensioners, despite the fact that labour's own risk assessment said 4000 people could die. they voted to consign people in their 80s and 90s to a miserable death this winter. they voted so that brave military veterans will be shivering in their living rooms . shivering in their living rooms. they voted so that people who need oxygen tanks to breathe might not be able to turn them on because their energy bills will be too high. but now i can reveal that they are trying to absolve themselves of this utter disgrace by being age uk champions. local residents were sent an email like this one, saying i'm delighted to say that your mp, mark sewards is now an aids champion. he says that he'll be standing up for old people in parliament, d