Speaking at Home Office Questions, Ms Cooper urged Theresa May to “get a grip” after a serious of “failures” at Britain’s airports.
Ms Cooper said the numbers of people absconding at border control or escaping from detention or disappearing has “more than doubled since the election”.
“The problem has got worse since the election, very substantially. Time and again it is getting worse, month-on-month, not better,” she said.
“Isn’t the truth that this is another example of failing border control and weaker action on illegal immigration on her watch?
“We’ve got controls downgraded hundreds of times, hundreds of staff being cut and then at the last minute re-recruited…will she get a grip?”
However the Home Secretary hit back, claiming the government was “putting right” the problems that grew up under Labour.
“It is this government that is actually the one government that is putting in place controls in our immigration system – it was the last Labour government that allowed people to come in without any controls on the immigration system,” she said.
“It’s about time the Labour party accepted responsibility for what they did when they were in government”, the Home Secretary added.
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