At Home Office questions on 21 May 2012, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper complained that border controls had been "downgraded hundreds of times".

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The shadow home secretary also called for the creation of a "dedicated UK Border Police" in order to "prevent foreign terror suspects from entering the country in the first place".

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