Yvette Cooper and Chris Philp in the Commons.

Yvette Cooper delivered a brutal slapdown to Chris Philp after he called on her to apologise to the country for the ongoing small boats crisis.

The home secretary reminded her Tory opposite number of his own government’s failures as they clashed in the Commons.

Philp had criticised the migrant returns deal Keir Starmer struck with Emmanuel Macron last week, which will see France accept some illegal immigrants from the UK.

He also condemned Cooper for scrapping the Rwanda scheme, even though it never forcibly deported a single asylum seeker to Africa.

Philp told MPs the home secretary had “presided over the highest number of illegal small boat crossings in........

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