Prime minister’s questions: Ian Blackford on why ‘nobody should support the government’s stance on immigration’

During prime minister’s questions, SNP leader Ian Blackford asked prime minister Boris Johnson for his opinion on the job of the home secretary, overseeing “one of the slowest, most bureaucratic and incompetent refugee responses in the whole of Europe”. 

Blackford told the House that he had “gently tried to work constructively with the government”, however, he feels that “nobody should support the government when it comes to the response to the refugee crisis”. This is a response that has seen 760 visa approvals in two weeks – numbers dwarfed by other European nations.

Boris Johnson told the House that these numbers are “uncapped” and that the government, which has a “proud record”, expects them to rise to the “region of hundreds of thousands”.