Mr Speaker, with your permission, I will update the House on the actions we are taking with France to strengthen our border security and the next steps on our reforms to the asylum system. 

Now to be aware when we came into the government, we found an asylum and immigration system in chaos.  

Small boat gangs for 7 years had been allowed to embed their criminal trade along the French coast. The asylum backlog was soaring. Illegal working was being ignored.

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It is little wonder that people right across the country lost confidence in the system and demanded to know why they were paying the price of a system that was so out of control.

But that does not mean people rejected the long and proud history of Britain doing our bit to help those fleeing persecution

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