2024-07-08 01:19:58
“The Rwanda plan was dead and buried before its implementation began (…) I am not prepared to continue with tricks that do not work as a deterrent,” Starmer told reporters at his first press conference.
Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak risked his political reputation by taking on the “stop the boats” push for the controversial plan despite criticism from human rights activists and adverse court rulings.
The Labor Party has said it will scrap a plan to deport people who crossed the English Channel by boat from northern France to Rwanda.
K. Starmer has previously claimed that R. Sunak’s policy is neither deterrent nor economically beneficial.
Immigration is becoming a growing political issue in the United Kingdom, which will leave the European Union in the 2020s. The country’s authorities then promised to “take back control of the borders”.
The new head of government said that he would solve the problem “upstream”, that is, by destroying people-smuggling gangs that organize transportation across the state border.
According to Mr Starmer, the policy will be based on a new “elite” border security team made up of immigration and law enforcement specialists, as well as the domestic intelligence service MI5.
The UK Home Office announced last month that 12,313 migrants, or 18 per cent, had entered the country across the Channel this year. more than at the same time last year.
in 2023 the number of arrivals was 29,437, ie 36 percent. less than in the record year of 2022, when 45,774 arrivals were recorded.
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