Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has once again declined to appear on GB News despite being scheduled for interviews, while giving interviews to other broadcasters about new asylum rules.The Home Secretary spoke to Sky News and other outlets today about plans to bar sex offenders from claiming asylum, but chose not to appear on The Peoples Channel.READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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00:00Currently, if you are a sex offender, you can still apply for asylum, such as Abdullazidi did,
00:10that horrific individual who threw the corrosive substance over the woman in Clapham before taking his own life.
00:18So they want to tighten the rules around that.
00:20But the fact is, even though they may be denied from going down the route of claiming asylum under the Refugee Act,
00:29they can still claim asylum under the European Convention of Human Rights,
00:33which allows you to claim that your right to a family life is being denied by not being allowed to have asylum.
00:44So there is still a loophole and a very big loophole that they could get through.
00:49And the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, who's bringing this forward, had no response to that other than to say,
00:54we've got to stop them getting asylum in the first place.
00:56Well, that's it. And she said, you know, they will look again at the rules and the way in which the court system is working,
01:06because too often it is down to the individual decisions of a judge,
01:12which often then fly against what Parliament means by tightening of rules around immigration.
01:19Where is the Home Secretary? Why is she not talking to us today?
01:22Well, it's a very good question. And I think, you know, it's quite disappointing that yet again,
01:28the Home Secretary has decided not to come on to GB News.
01:32She was scheduled for the morning round this morning.
01:35And this is an issue, of course, that is a very important issue for the GB News audience.
01:42But for whatever reason, the Home Secretary had decided that she would not appear on this channel,
01:47despite me being told, actually, a couple of weeks ago, an event in Cambridgeshire,
01:52where once again she was scheduled to come on and be interviewed by me.
01:55She pulled out of that.
01:56Has she ever been on GB News as Home Secretary?
01:58She has, but very, very limited appearances.
02:02Just explain to our viewers what that means. We say things like the morning round.
02:05A few people know what that means. Just explain to everybody, Mark.
02:07So every morning there is what's known as the morning round, effectively,
02:12where all of the political, the main political parties would have an individual,
02:17such as a government minister for, clearly, the Labour Party,
02:21shadow minister for the Conservatives, who would be up and would talk on the issues of the day.
02:28And you hear them.
02:29There are certain ministers, when we hear that they are on the morning round,
02:34the chances of them actually appearing on the channel are quite slim.