Rishi Sunak says first Rwanda asylum flights to take off in ’10-12 weeks’
Sunak is now being asked if the Rwanda bill goes through, will it be a moment of success for him, and if his reputation depends on it.
“Success is when the boats have been stopped, that’s what the country expects, that’s what the government and I committed to delivering,” the prime minister says.
He blames Labour peers in the House of Lords for the delay, adding that people can have confidence on his commitment to delivering the policy based on the numbers of arrivals decreasing last year.
But in 2024, so far the numbers are up, as our colleagues at BBC Verify have examined.
“We’ve got to finish the job,” Sunak adds. But he deflects answering the question, saying the Labour party, if elected, “can’t tell you at all what they’d do about this issue”.
Published at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:51:46 +0000