Victoria Derbyshire Skewers Minister As She Dodges 6 Questions On Labour Immigration Pledge

Jacqui Smith and Victoria Derbyshire.

A Labour minister dodged six questions on one of her party’s key election pledges as she was skewered by Victoria Derbyshire.

Jacqui Smith was repeatedly asked how many human trafficking gangs have been “smashed” since the general election.

Keir Starmer made the policy a central plank of his election campaign amid pressure from voters to stop asylum seekers coming to the UK on small boats across the English Channel.

On Newsnight on Monday...