After claiming he was the sole candidate who would “get those flights off,” Rishi Sunak officially included the Rwanda contract in yesterday’s vote.
Prime Minister May made a dire prediction on the first official day of the election campaign, saying that “people will keep coming” if Sir Keir Starmer scraps the plan to transfer Channel migrants to Africa.
Unfortunately for the Conservatives, according to Mr. Sunak, the first deportation planes won’t take off until after the July 4 election, casting doubt on their expectations of a direct boost to the party’s popularity from the government’s deportation program.
Sir Keir said that the prime minister called the election too soon in order to cover up the failure of the plan. According to the Labour leader, who was visiting Gillingham in Kent, the prime minister called an early election without testing his idea because he had never thought it would succeed.
According to Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, the Rwanda proposal was exposed as a “full con” because flights could not commence before the election.
The small-boats dilemma, according to Tory strategists, will serve as a significant political wedge. The decision at this election is planes halted with Keir Starmer or flights off with the Conservatives, according to one.
By calling the “bold” Rwanda plan a great topic for this election, Mr. Sunak seemed to validate the tactic.
Even the prime minister’s party, Labour, would “do nothing about it” and “offer an amnesty to illegal migrants,” Sunak said.
He went on to say that fifteen European nations were looking at such plans and that.”
the only person who doesn’t is Keir Starmer.
Sunak remarked that along with allies throughout the continent, they are leading the fight to confront the difficulties presented by untenable levels of illegal migration. He said, together, their Rwanda plan and their efforts to disrupt criminal groups’ terrible trade serve as a deterrence to end unlawful migration for good.
