LISTEN: Yvette Cooper Blames Good Weather for Record Surge in Channel Migrant Crossings

Home secretary Yvette Cooper was wheeled out for the media round this morning, the day after fresh figures revealed a record-breaking 10,250 small boat migrants crossed the Channel this year so far. Over 40% higher than the figure for this time last year…

Nick Robinson pressed Cooper on Labour’s increasingly hollow ‘smash the gangs’ slogan – she blamed the weather:

“There’s a mix of different things that we need to do obviously.