Kemi Badenoch on small boat crossings

The Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said announcements about a new immigration plan would be made at the party's conference, and criticised Labour for scrapping the previous government's plan to deport migrants who arrive in the UK illegally to the African country Rwanda.

"They scrapped a plan which would have worked, they said they'd smash the gangs," she said. "Instead we're seeing small boat crossings increased by 40%.

"Nigel Farage's plans fell apart the minute he was asked questions about them. Labour's one in one out to France, how's that going?

"One hundred people in, one out, it's already mired in the legal quagmire."