Mr Sunack said asylum seekers arriving in Britain illegally would not be deported to Rwanda before the election, calling into question one of his Conservative Party’s key policies.
More than 10,000 asylum seekers have arrived in Britain by boat since the start of the year, updated government figures released today show, posing a major challenge to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of the July 4 general election.
The number of people arriving on England’s south coast after making the dangerous Channel crossing fell by a third in 2023, but the latest figures posted on a government website showed 10,170 arrived between January and May 25, in compared to 7,395 which was the corresponding number in the same period last year.
Sunak, who on Wednesday announced the date of the general election, then said that asylum seekers arriving in Britain illegally would not be deported to Rwanda before the election, calling into question one of his Conservative Party’s key policies.
The plan has been delayed by legal hurdles for more than two years and the opposition Labor Party, which leads by 20 percentage points in opinion polls and is seen as ending 14 years of Tory rule, has vowed to cancel this plan if elected.
Labour’s shadow labor secretary, Stephen Kinnock, said the Sunack government had not done enough to tackle the issue.
“Because all government efforts are now focused on deporting a few hundred people to Rwanda, contact has been lost with the thousands of others who cross the Channel every day,” Kinnock said in a statement.
Labor has made it clear that if elected it will establish a Border Security Administration bringing together police, intelligence and prosecutors to work with international agencies to stop people-trafficking.
Source :Skai
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