Watch the moment Michelle Dewberry slaps down Labour MP Barry Gardiner in a tense row about the migrant crisis gripping Britain.

The member for Brent West was defending the Government’s approach to tackling the problem, suggesting it is starting to get a hold of it.

He said Labour was starting to address “pull factors” that make Britain an attractive destination for illegal migrants.

Gardiner also said “we’ve actually returned more people than in the past five years”, a point Michelle felt a need to address.

“Oh Barry Gardiner come off it”, she interjected.

“You’re gonna quote to me 24,000 people. I am going to tell you, as we have this conversation all of the time, a large proportion of these were voluntary deportations, many of which the Government didn’t even have a hand on.

“And we had to pay for many to go back.”

Gardiner denied the latter claim, saying: “We didn’t, actually. When you spoke about making sure that everyone who came here didn’t have the right to stay here and would be returned - you know as well as I do, governments of both shades have had the problem that countries we believe these people have come from refuse to take them back.

“It’s not a case of, you can come in and simply say, ‘we have a new policy - we’re going to return everybody’. You have to cooperate internationally with the governments from which we believe they have come from.