The former Shadow Business Secretary told GB News, “Of course we’re being gamed by the French, they are so much cleverer at it than Sir Keir Starmer.
“I always dread it every time Keir Starmer is in discussion with an international leader because he always loses, he doesn’t put a strong British case to start with and he gives in to more or less anything they want.”
Redwood added: “He’s given billions of pounds of our fish away for no advantage to the French, he’s giving away the rights to make our own laws over crucial trade and industrial matters, and now we see him giving way on this issue about people coming into the country.”
Redwood continued, “So he’s actually saying he would like to welcome more legal refugees in through French selection, in addition to the many tens of thousands we’re already accepting.”
He is urging Starmer to “concentrate on the domestic issues that matter to people.
Redwood told GB News, “Above all, when you said you’re going to smash the gangs, why can’t you?
Why don’t you start arresting people when they arrive? Why don’t you start interrogating them, taking away their mobile phones?
“Finding out where all the dodgy money is going, cracking the money laundering and the drug dealing that lies behind a lot of this.”
Redwood expressed doubts over Macron over whether or not he can deliver an agreement, he added, “We don’t even know that the French President has the power to enforce this, because, of course, he doesn’t run a sovereign country and the EU may have strong views.
We know that the southern states are already lobbying not even to have this very small scheme, but it’s got to be so much bigger than the current plan.
