We have looked at what the Australians have done, and we have also looked at what the Spanish did in respect of migration from west Africa to the Canary islands. In one year they received 36,000 migrants, but just a few years later that was down to zero. They broke the business model of the smugglers and found a way of returning people to the African states and working with those states. That, I think, is the model that we need to adopt. It is obviously more complicated in this case, but that is the long-term answer.
Tunisia, and European Council
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 29 June 2015.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Tunisia, and European Council.
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