Liam Byrne

And they were never within reach.

Some of them were within the Tories.

But I mean, 70% of reformed voters will have not voted Labour in the last 20 years.

What we learned the hard way is that there's basically a double balance you've got to strike.

So one, your borders have got to be strong.

So if you think about what we had to do, we had to go to the UK Border Agency, put people in uniform, create these kind of offshore checks before people got anywhere near the border.

You've got to have strong borders.

And that is why...

You have to fix the boats crisis.

But the second balance you've got to strike is that people have got to kind of earn their stay, earn their path to citizenship.

So earn citizenship with a big set of reforms that I prepared.

We ran out of time before implementing them.

Shabana, Mahmood has picked them up.

And I spent a lot of time going around the country talking to people about, okay, look, what is the deal to be British?

How do you earn the right to be British?

And the thing that struck me is that actually people are perfectly reasonable.

They say, look, do you know what?

It comes down to three things.

It comes down to learning to speak English, obeying the law, and working hard and paying tax.

Beyond that, you should be live and let live.