Rishi Sunak vows to clamp down on ‘spurious’ asylum claims says Labour has ‘no plans’ to tackle small boats

RISHI Sunak has vowed to clamp down on “spurious” asylum claims today and accused Sir Keir Starmer of having “no plans” to stop small boats.

In his second ever PMQs as leader, Mr Sunak pledged to tackle illegal immigration by stopping economic migrants from making fake claims that they are fleeing war zones or persecution.

The PM hit out at Sir Keir, whose party voted against the Nationality and Borders Act, which will help to crackdown on false asylum claims.

Mr Sunak said: “We do need to tackle the issue of people putting spurious repeated last-minute claims to frustrate the process.

“That’s how we’ll tackle the asylum system.”

Hitting out at Sir Keir, a firey Mr Sunak added: “He voted against the Nationality and Borders Ace, he said he said he would scrap the Rwanda partnership and he opposed the ending of free movement of people. that border control.

“Border Control is a serious complex issue… You can’t attack a plan if you don’t have a plan.”