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who's got loads to say. it's thangam debbonaire, shadow leader of the house of commons. hello, hello, hello. and thank you so much for mentioning us in the house of commons last week. this is how it went. the leader famously once reassured this house that another prime minister wasn't hiding under a desk. words immortalised on the bbc's newscast intro. now i hear from the parliamentary press gallery reception news that she's a big fan of the podcasts. so, mr speaker, i'll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house. is that where the prime minister really was on mond...

Basic information out of the home office is difficult. so we have a backlog problem. and when you have a backlog problem at a home office that is basically, as far as far as i can see, has been gutted of skilled personnel to make those decisions, we then end up with an accommodation problem. so people aren't working out of the asylum accommodation and they get stuck in hotels. and all of this is a system that you guys could inherit, relatively soon, within the next, say, 18 months, if you were to win the election. and at the same time, of course, we are seeing lots of people coming across on b...

Which is that few people dispute at the moment the whole issue with small boat crossings is kind of out of control. the numbers are huge. there's a problem for the government to wrestle with, potentially for you guys to wrestle with if you win the next election. and maybe if the existing set of policy solutions isn't working, you have to think radical. they make the argument they are thinking radical and they're pursuing rwanda. what would you do? what we've got here is a backlog problem. this is actually a situation that has grown over the last few years. when i was first an mp, the home offi...

This administration or any administration is what are they going to do that is worthy of the sacrifice of that veteran or his or her family. there have been multiple attempts over the last 25 years, this claims backlog problem didn't start five years ago or three years ago, it's more than 20 years. we've made some progress but we have to demand that the v.a. measure up just as any organization that serves people must do. one of the things that is most important about the bill that we have and it's been great to work with dean heller not just on a bipartisan basis, but in a very substantive way...

A leadership issue. you are a veteran, a marine. your new memoir is about your service to your country. you served as secretary to the navy. what does the v.a. need to do to fix this backlog problem? >> first of all, this isn't a political memoir. >> no. it's about your service. we'll get to it in a moment. >> in terms of the veterans administration, when i was mentored many years ago by the world war ii veterans as a young council, we learned all the mechanics, had to learn all about the v.a. bureaucracy and those sorts of things. i was really surprised when i got to the senate in '07 when we...