Yvette Cooper Grilled On Immigration And Offshore Processing!

[@bertrach]

Laura is already harder on Labour about things they might do in the future than she ever was with the tories after 13 years in power.

[@PaulTalksGamesMags]

The way that host grills Labour compared to her precious Tory MPs is sickening.

[@mrsdanvers9562]

Kuensberg should be sacked. She's so biased, rude and ignorant. About time the BBC used a proper journalist /interviewer not an apology for a journalist/interviewer who is so in favour of the tories it's she's a joke..

[@RichardFraser-y9t]

Kuenssberg is getting worse, if that is possible.

[@jerrywinder7249]

Tory party stoge!

[@handarokadath1515]

Stodge!!

[@uapuat]

I wonder how much worse Kuenssberg is going to get during this election campaign.

[@macflod]

Laura is great at this subtle bias

[@liamatsutv]

Kuenssberg was never especially good at hiding her slavish devotion to the Tories, but now she's not even trying. This entire interview was weirdly aggressive, ignorant and adversarial, in a way she would NEVER behave with a Tory MP. Kuenssberg is a disgrace.

[@macflod]

Yeah its true- If you can ever find the video of Laura waiting for Cameron to make his post brexit referendum announcement (where he resigned), and then seen her afterwards! Oh my goodness! She was sort of normal waiting for it! He announced he was resigning and laura afterwards looks soooo sad! She looked like she would start to cry straight after the camera was off. Im sure as soon as it was off she walked away to be alone with tears! So obvious that she loves the tories!

[@warrenfontana1325]

She is always aggressive u less it’s a Tory.

[@mrd64]

She's already blaming Labour for immigration levels.

[@DerekHarrison-ue9vv]

And she conveniently forgets that the small boats crossing the Channel has risen to record numbers under Sunak’s watch!

[@happyslappy5203]

Small boats crossing the Channel are tiny numbers when compared to ‘legal’ immigration visas granted by Tory governments: ONS "Long term immigration visas. Non-EU nationals. YE June 2022: 848,000. YE June 2023: 968,000. June to December 2023: 500,150. Mostly from India, Nigeria, China and Pakistan."

[@christopherballantine8407]

I long for the day when I don't have to pay a licence fee for this broadcaster of the tory party.

[@klausschumacher7126]

I think she earns a lot of money from conservative doners to spread her right wing propaganda.... Money turns the world around...

[@davidty2006]

@@DerekHarrison-ue9vv Not to mention a terrorist was amongst them and was allowed to stay for years.

[@columbus7950]

Laura is an instrument of the Conservative Party.

[@mandycouchbean]

Please can we swap Laura K for unbiased Journalist Victoria Derbyshire ❤

[@chairmakerPete]

"unbiased" VD? You're having a complete laugh 😂😂

[@AndrewLord]

@@chairmakerPetesullyt

[@pifflepockle]

@@chairmakerPeteYou tit

[@Hyde_Hill]

This is a decent example of the difference between giving a long answer because an issue is complicated vs not answering the question at all.

[@grahamturner1290]

LK is a disgrace.

[@michaelvdunne]

Who pays Laura BBC or Tory party?

[@DerekHarrison-ue9vv]

The boss of the BBC, Tim Davie, is a Tory and Tory donor,so it’s probably both!

[@adamlee3772]

Laura K should be sacked. She’s just a shrill for the tories.

[@michaellawrence7570]

Excellent comment

[@captainfrandad1138]

She’s not even hiding it anymore

[@DerekHarrison-ue9vv]

Don’t we know it! And her and Clive Myrie are leading presenters for the General Election on the BBC! I wonder if she’ll give Sunak an easy ride,and get stuck into Starmer?

[@chriswood3252]

That's exactly how she keeps her job.

[@geoffreyking4515]

Her and fiona Bruce SACK

[@Badger_Watch42]

When does Laura ever ask anything but a stupid question to a party she doesn't support

[@stephenglancy8551]

Laura K. Boris bit on the side😂😂😂

[@JohnShaw-zm2pc]

Vote out to help out. Vote Labour after 14 years 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@mandycouchbean]

Laura Kunnesberg please deflect to another channel!

[@telebubba5527]

Like the excrement channel.

[@josephinemonahan915]

The word you’re looking for is defect

[@ivanconnolly7332]

Grilled by Frau Flick with no journalism evident.

[@michaellawrence7570]

Superb analysis max thanks

[@adamlee3772]

Evening Max and all here.

[@GeorgeKeever]

Kuenssberg getting aggressive with her questioning, where has this been hiding, oh I forgot she's questioning a labour spokesperson.

[@starmersbarber]

Keunnsberg is so rude and aggressive in this fiasco of an 'interview'.

[@mandycouchbean]

Good Evening Max and all Here ❤

[@stevanbankier707]

There's definitely something seriously broken in Westminster and really needs fixing

[@JT-si6bl]

It's built that way, and is constantly 'fixing' benefactors coffers

[@StewartMiddleton]

LK arrogance is based on the belief she is a good journalist-someone should tell her she isn't. Derbyshire should replace LK.

[@Markfarrar60]

She misses the whole point,not mentioning that her beloved tories are to blame for this mess

[@gillianslater9227]

WHO STARTED THE MESS, WAY WAY BEFORE TORIES, HAVE A RED UP ABOUT BLAIR, THINK YOUR ANSWER WILL COME TO YOU. ONLY ANSWER THE LABOUR LOT EVER GIVE ON ANYTHING, BLAME THE TORIES. EVERYBODY IS SICK OF HEARING LABOURS EXCUSES. 100% I'M NOT TORY OR LABOUR .THANKS. BUT YOU LABOUR LOT ARE LIKE A BROKEN RECORD, ON, AND ON , AND ON.!!!!!!!!!!

[@grahamsmith2022]

Tory cheerleader Kuenssberg needs moving on to GBNews as quickly as possible, she's an effing disgrace, where's the balance and impartiality?

[@telebubba5527]

I just wonder if they are also going to whine for 4 years, like that orange dude in the US.

[@colinwilson3750]

Tory cheerleader? You're having a laugh. No leave her on the BBC please, she's as relevant there as the BBC.

[@grahamsmith2022]

@@colinwilson3750 she'd fit right in with all the other knobheads on GB news, simple television for simple people.

[@imnotafascist]

​@@colinwilson3750She is absolutely a Tory cheerleader. Daily proof of this.

[@Cam-mo7gq]

​@@colinwilson3750Sadly not laughing. The witless bint is unbridled in her Tory love.

[@johncrichton4341]

Yeah, that's completely fine, however, over the other side of the reporting fence, LK appears to be left completely un-managed internally by the BBC - why is that?

[@MrsGardiner]

However Macron has already offered that he would permit a processing centre on French soil. That could be done by Labour asap. And asylum seekers that are cleared would be given a ferry ticket to go to Britain safely. This is not sending people to be processed in France, but avoiding small boat tragedies almost from day one.

[@b00ts4ndc4ts]

Do you really trust a country that has more than it's fair share to process people on our half, or to allow us to make the same decision on their behalf? The only way out of this is to work with the countries where they are coming from, obviously these countries are in need of help.

[@starmersbarber]

I'm not a fan of the BBC political output, but I may tune into the election night stuff just to see Keunnsberg's face even more like a bulldog chewing a wasp than usual when the Tories start dropping like flies. I also reckon John Curtis will cut across Keunnsberg's crap and actually tell us what's going on...using actual facts!!!

[@stephenmcdonald7908]

My thoughts exactly. It might be interesting to tune into g bee bees on election night. There will be a great wailing and gnashing of teeth.

[@gillianslater9227]

HAHAHA.!! YOU SAYING LABOUR THE PARTY.! IN YOUR DREAMS SUNSHINE , WITH A LIEING LEADER LIKE STARMER. REFORM , REFORM, REFORM ALL THE WAY.!!!!!!!! SMILE. 😄😁😆😅🤣😂

[@starmersbarber]

@@gillianslater9227 Thanks for your shouting contribution Gillian. Just to quietly point out that I'm not actually a Labour voter.

[@gillianslater9227]

@@starmersbarber AH.!! CAN'T YOU SHOUT.?? TOUGH.!!!!!

[@starmersbarber]

@@gillianslater9227 I take it you're just having a laugh Gillian. If so, good on you...I'm smiling away at the dialogue. Cheers for the entertainment.

[@mandycouchbean]

You've nailed it again Max ❤

[@jerrywinder7249]

Typical tory party promises broken!!!

[@beatricecowley4307]

Not far enough away. If she is on another channel she will still be heard. If I had my way she would on the first rocket to the moon. With all her conservative friends to make sure she is not lonely.

[@RichardFraser-y9t]

"100,000 back log is a deterrent", well, thats working.

[@indiana146]

Me and my son rate you big time

[@kenbushnell4793]

#Chris Mason and #Laura Kuenssberg are the mouthpiece of the Tories. Victoria Derbyshire is the only BBC Journalist that truly challenges all politicians no matter what party, she will call them out when it warrants it.

[@holgernielsen-ti8ej]

Labor will have a problem because voters will have an expectation that the problems created by the Tory government can be solved within a year. There will be a lot of disappointed people out there. It will take years to fix the mistakes made by the Tories the last decade.

[@GranCanariaUncovered]

Labour are ruling out fixing the problems the Tories created before they even get elected. By the way for someone who spells quite well, have you not noticed there is a letter U in labour?

[@michaellawrence7570]

What you gonna do from day one a disgraceful but not suprising question from her

[@theresoluteone]

Just processing the claims will bring down the numbers eventually

[@boogaloo4640]

If only Kuenssberg would grill the Tories with the same fervour

[@williamwade641]

Laura Kuntsberg was pretty nasty here.

[@Ptf74]

Rather than disingenuously sending people somewhere else for "processing", or opening more safe routes and risk hemoraging support, perhaps the best bet for labour is processing people before they even reach here. I heard there's the option of a processing center in france, that would render the boat crossing gangs redundant. Just thinking out loud.

[@pitbing]

Can the BBC swap Laura for the totally unbiased and impartial Gary Lineker?

[@krislibertine]

Runour has it, when GB news shows instruction training videos for presenters, they just put Laura Kuensberg on.

[@aelthric]

France offered processing facilities before people come to the UK and the Tory UK Government turned it down, pretty sure if Labour asked France if their offer was still open to allow asylum / refugee processing on behalf of the UK in France that France would be receptive to that, but it will require many more staff to process claims both in the UK for those already here and for those trying to come here from France...

[@Matthew_is_this_handle_free]

She wasn't saying they would use the Dublin convention, but that it had been used and something like it could be reviewed for feasibility. I.e. not all overseas processing is automatically off the table, but the Rwanda scheme is.

[@Not00]

Sack Kuesnberg

[@kenhardy8405]

People who have No Documents and have No Right to be here Are Going to be Returned Where Exactly? Which Other Country Is Going To Accept Them.

[@peterzapp2091]

The Rwanda “deal” determined the price tag: £1b for 200 deportees.

[@timsturbo4870]

Her husband Ed Balls invented and introduced Foreign Aid

[@ILJ1963]

Since the election was announced, both BBC News headlines for Keunnsberg's Sunday programme, so far have been negative Labour headlines!

[@dawncrisp8531]

So basically labour will have to negotiate which will take years. So no one will be going soon anywhere. Funnily enough Serco and clear springs still have contracts till 2029. Clear spring receives £3.5 million a day this is for housing and transportation. Unbelievable that we will see no change whatsoever ever from any other party. This question should have been asked Laura. Incompetence all the way around.

[@flickthenick]

L K is such a tory sympathiser, such a biased bbc interviewer...

[@kenbradley5032]

Labour have already said they will employ more processors to get the numbers down

[@Paul_Wright]

So 5 more years of failure? All blamed on the tories? She is grasping at straws that don’t exist

[@samhartford8677]

The EU is not offering access to the Dublin Convention to the UK. It's a single market thing.

[@stephenelliott7071]

It's so clear what needs to be done from day 1 on this issue and Max is aluding to it here - get processing those applications at a rate of knots! It's common sense, but the Tories just want to con the hard of thinking we need to take away our human rights to 'get it done'...So in effect harm ourselves, rather than work the problem.

[@finlayfraser9952]

The boats would be halted by French based processing centres!

[@spitfire1962]

Everything is going to take time. It’s not going to be fixed from day1. Will take at least 2 terms to fix some of the issues. As no one knows what majority, if any Labour will have, then it’s difficult to say with any certainty what will be achievable. We certainly don’t need some kind of victory rally ahead of the election (kinnock). If Labour get a massive majority then hopefully things will move at a much quicker pace.

[@caroltodd6691]

Lauras dad was Tory MP

[@kevinbultitude6472]

How did Kuenssberg get this job, because it was not her talent!

[@Poliss95]

Labour is doing everything it can not to frighten the horses in the 'Red Wall' constituencies, and that includes taking on Tory policies. Journalists set policies. When Labour pledged not to raise income tax or N.I, the bloke on Sky News said 'So you'll be raising VAT then?' The next day Labour and the Liberals had to come out and pledge not to raise VAT. Where are they going to get the money from to fix things????

[@mattyouds5843]

Surely the obvious thing would be not to send them to France once they're already here, but to process people in France before they leave. Then you get to swap the small boats for a bloody big boat!

[@kevinjohnson3782]

Kuensberg couldn't grill a burger!

[@Y55MAC]

We don't need to be part of the Dublin Agreement. The French have already offered their assistance IN FRANCE. Tories said no. If Labour say Yes then it could be up and running in months with a new Dublin agreement coming later.

[@bigbarty8648]

Why am I always reminded of ET when I see Yvette Cooper?

[@natsdaley9615]

So much for impartial

[@sisulart]

One thing I'm looking forward to on election night and the next morning, and hopefully it will happen, is Kuenssberg's face as Labour gain after Labour gain start coming through.

[@lilianandersonmayne4968]

If she gives a number this man catches them out because they can't get a number the media are crafty trying to outwit them

[@jonhenson1991]

Without revealing her hand, perhaps Labour has already been in talks with the relevant officials instead of waiting until 'DAY1' before starting work. The first 100 days is an important milestone and Labour knows that it would be advantageous to reflect favourable progress.

[@melabert7269]

Wasn’t there a plan where we would process claims in France before people crossed the channel in agreement with France? Wouldnt this be the easiest and most effective way to stop the boats crossing? Rather than go with a policing tactic that will probably be in effective.

[@johnrussell3961]

The EU have a new economic migrant treaty. Part of that requires members to share the load Italy and Greece have. There is no way we can enter the Dublin Accord’s alone. That’s cherry picking. We have to accept the economic migrant treaty as well.

[@linmorell1813]

Why can’t Labour have a clear strategy on this. More people to do the processing in the UK and speed up the decision. Give more jobs to people in the UK. It’s because it’s going to be a continuation of austerity policies rather than the change needed.

[@leckstar100x9]

I fancy Yvette Cooper❤

[@syedhasan5861]

She's Ed Ball's wife!

[@roisinmalone3015]

Haven't Labour said they're going to cut immigration? The SNP said that's really bad for Scotland

[@jounik]

That was a stupid question but it was also the wrong answer. Sending people abroad to be processed is not the answer, processing their claims before they even enter the country is.

[@andreaslamers9535]

but this was what the Lady say, she will process the claims and beside of this make new agreements

[@brendan.lawless4943]

That should be processed in another

[@wibblywobbly99]

Laura and her 1 million quid wardrobe, in touch with the ordinary millionaire

[@Gary-le7dz]

Have to say I ve tried to be unbiased with kunsberg , but her interview of cooper today was outrageous , and well done Yvette cooper for ignoring this vile woman’s biased attitude

[@stevehawkins3108]

It does rather disturb and disappoint me that the Labour Party seems to dance to the Tories tune of the subject of immigration. By allowing this, the Tory party is permitted to dictate the election conversation. Immigration is NOT an issue. Immigrants are necessary to fill the vacancies that native British are either unwilling or unable to undertake and given our aging population this is not going to change. Furthermore immigration, despite what the Tory press wants us to believe, is not an issue to ‘the man in the street’ who is really concerned with our declining public services and the economy. By making us believe that Immigration is an issue is just one more attempt to divert attention from the Tories failures over the last 14 1/2 yers.

[@TimNeedham-l7z]

Tories have left such a mess in so many areas..

[@gadfageyar]

She gave Victoria Atkins an easy ride.

[@Notalloldpeople]

Off shore processing/pre screening in France is the way to stop the boats. This border security command is a pathetic nod to the right because maritime and hummanitarian law prevents stopping the boats except for picking them up and bringing them to the UK. Taking them back to France would involve invading a sovereign territory!!

[@minui8758]

What in Gods name is Kuenssberg wearing?! It’s like a 1940s woman’s siren suit

[@judithmatthews8460]

Kunsberg with her aggressive attitude to Labour undermines her own argument. There are questions Labour needs to address but they can dodge them by highlighting the questioner’s bias.

[@claudiafigueiredo4979]

Labour being pulled on imigration all the time this will be same crap different day

[@MunsterIrons]

By that you mean, giving Cooper a grilling! Cooper can’t answer anything, which is why it’s so protracted. Cooper’s dishonesty and evasion is the issue.

[@annettebrewster-kl1gq]

Kuenssberg is not only a non journalist but also a poor interviewer. She should stick to interviews with Prince Andrew so that they can talk about pizza and sweating.

[@susanpettitt713]

Ten years to fix this mess ....ta Max .

[@shiftylad9938]

Ireland I believe now are thinking of the 3rd country asylum seeking claims. It’s ok by law seemingly to do it but not Rwanda because it’s unsafe. The resin is Ireland just hasn’t got the relevant infrastructure to process them Algeria, Tunisia has been mentioned and it will pass in Ireland.

[@jonmatthews721]

To be fair, in the grand scheme of things, I don't think this matters too much in regards the election result

[@klassonder2508]

Both Labour & Tories wish cheap migrant workers…

[@liammalarky3483]

On day one, Yvette, what are your plans? Because you've got a sh¡tload of people to deal with, that we Tories left for you. We'd like the backlog, etc, sorted by close of play on day one. Remind me, Laura, what day of the Tory solution is it?

[@rayfraser7079]

Why are Labour MPs😢 all talking like Robots

[@marknaylor9394]

evening Max...if a Labour govt did zip, zero, nothing it would be more than the Tories did in 14 years...

[@michaeljones4379]

Did she arrive in the Boris bus of Angela and starmer

[@stevenculley3330]

Kuntsberg should go to GB News now, horrible woman.

[@paulshorney3465]

She's married to Ed Balls, appropriate surname 🤬🤬

[@russelljenkins7953]

Don't like the answer speak over them

[@rob6255-j4t]

Is Yvette a specialist on maintaining rubber boats then. R

[@Stannington]

I remember MR saying something along the lines that Kuenssberg is acting like a Tory stooge