Why has Yvette Cooper refused to set a deadline on small boats?

Yvette Cooper has described the number of people arriving in the UK on small boats as “too high”. An inflatable dinghy carrying around 65 migrants crosses the English Channel in March It is complex Ms Cooper’s plans to cut the crossings don’t involve one big idea like the Tory government’s Rwanda plan. The prime minister and his home secretary want to smash the international smuggling rings that every day take desperate people and try to bring them to Britain on one of the most dangerous sea routes in the world. In short – even if Yvette Cooper had given the public a deadline for when they would see small boat numbers fall, she might not have been able to keep it.