On his first day in office, newly elected Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer reportedly scrapped the plan to send illegal boat migrants to Rwanda rather than putting them up in hotels in Britain.
The insider told the broadsheet that the plan is “dead”, adding: “If Rishi Sunak thought Rwanda would work, he wouldn’t have called an election. It was a con. By calling an election, Sunak was acknowledging that fact.”
However, unlike Farage, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government has rejected the notion of the UK withdrawing from the Strasbourg-based court, the membership of which was unaffected by Brexit given that the ECHR is technically a separate institution from the European Union, despite being closely aligned.
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Indeed, Starmer — a strong opponent of Brexit — has suggested that he would seek closer ties with the EU on immigration, including potentially taking in a quota of EU migrants per year in exchange for a returns policy to allow the UK to send illegals back to the bloc.
Labour’s plan to confront the migrant crisis would seek to step up enforcement against the people smuggling gangs operating on both sides of the English Channel and go after unscrupulous business owners in Britain who hire illegals.
The British government has already committed nearly half a billion pounds in taxpayer money to send to the French to step up enforcement, however, this has yielded limited results.
Nigel Farage, who will finally enter Parliament after decades in the political sphere, has argued that the government should task the Royal Navy to immediately return boat migrants back to the beaches of France, and to cut off payments to Paris if the French navy continues to escort migrants into British territorial waters.
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