'You haven't got a leg to stand on!' Camilla Tominey grills James Cleverly on immigration 'false promises'

Speaking on GB News Camilla said: "Won't the people watching this be thinking, he has got a bit of brass neck. You have opened the door thousands of illegal immigrants by dinghy across the channel?

Cleverley responded: "Stopping the boats, fighting these people smuggling gangs is really hard. They are brutal, but also they have adapted their tactics.

"Of course, I am determined to continue to do everything that I can to stop the boats. That is why we have a cross border organisation, the small boats operation command commanded by a former British Army general. That is why we have immigration enforcement which actually send people back to their home countries.

He added: "We have the Rwanda scheme which is about that deterrent so we are doing all of those things and more."

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He went on to slam Labour for "claiming that they will do less" and "scrapping the Rwanda scheme."

Camilla asked him: "With the greatest respect, you haven't got a leg to stand on when it comes to broken promises have you?

"The Conservatives have been promising the electorate that they will bring down both legal and illegal immigration since 2010, you have been promising that for 14 years. You have never delivered on the promise."

Cleverly replied: "I was made Home Secretary in Autumn last year and I immediately took action to bring down Illegal migration.

"Those numbers are now coming down. Three hundred thousand people who previously had the right to be here no longer have the right to be here through migration routes.

"I took action to make sure that foreign students could not bring family members," he explained "that is already in place."

"I am making sure that those flights to Rwanda are ready to go."

The Channel migrant crisis deepened on Tuesday with a record number making the illegal crossing from France.

It takes the total number of migrants who have crossed this year to almost 12,200.

The total number of people who have crossed since the Prime Minister made his pledge to stop the crossings has now reached almost 41,500.