Labour's policies on immigration risks emboldening “extremist parties” and stoking public anger if they fail to tackle the issue, Home Secretary James Cleverly has said.
He also claimed that a Labour government would put the economy at risk with “enormous hidden tax plans”.
Cleverly told GB News: “Well, I gave a speech in New York at the tail end of last year, where I said that if governments don't get a grip of immigration and work, cooperatively and internationally, there is a risk that extremist parties take advantage of the disquiet.
“I've been saying that since I was first appointed as Home Secretary and the Conservatives are taking action. I brought down legal migration and the policies I put in place are predicted to reduce legal migration by about 300,000.
“The work that we are doing with the Rwanda scheme and other elements of it will have a deterrent effect on small boats, but all those things are at risk under Labour.
“I worry that when Labour, not if, when Labour fall short on this issue, the anger of the British people could erupt in a whole load of different ways. That is why it's so important that people think very carefully about how they vote on the fourth of July.”
He added: “When Rishi and Keir Starmer had their debate, and Keir Starmer said, ‘oh, I will break the criminal gangs’ when pushed by the Prime Minister, when asked how how are you actually going to do that, he had no answer.
“He's going to scrap the Rwanda scheme. There are big policy announcements of the creation of two new Home Office units, a border command and returns unit. They both already exist. They’re already existing in the Home Office.
“So Labour are basically saying they are going to do less and somehow achieve more. It's like having an immigration policy where you're praying for rain. You have to actually have a plan. We have a plan. Labour do not.”
He claimed that a Labour government would put the economy at risk with stealth tax rises: “The British economy is very much at risk under a Labour government, with their enormous hidden tax plans.
“But let's look at our performance recently. We have got inflation down from over 11% to 2%. We have wages growing faster than prices now for six or seven months.
“Look at what we have done since…we've got to understand that much of that inflation was driven by global circumstances.
“But the point is the team that are at the head of the government at the moment, our team, which has brought inflation down to 2%, has got the fastest growing economy of any country in the G7, wages growing faster than prices unemployment staying low, international investment in the UK at record numbers.
“So that is what we have done and that is what we will continue to do, if returned to government. The Labour Party will stifle business investment, ramp up taxes, crash the economy, increase unemployment.
“The reason I know that's what will happen is because that is what they always do. Remember that note, ‘there's no money left’?
“That's what happens when you have a Labour government, they break the economy and the British people do not deserve that.”
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