Labour: PM’s Rwanda plan is a costly gimmick
Yvette Cooper said that Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda deportation scheme is a costly “gimmick” to get what the shadow home secretary described as “symbolic flights off just before an election.” Ms Cooper said that Labour would be “putting that investment into improving our border security, going after the criminal gangs, and also setting up a returns unit so that we make the system work.”
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00:00 We've seen now that more people arrived on small boats yesterday
00:05 than the government is planning to send to Rwanda in the next 12 months.
00:10 And that just shows the gimmick that is the Rwanda policy
00:14 that involves them sending 500 million pounds to Rwanda for just 300 people.
00:20 Instead of the gimmick, what we should be doing is putting that investment
00:24 into improving our border security, going after the criminal gangs
00:29 and also setting up a returns unit so that we make the system work,
00:32 get a grip instead of the gimmicks.
00:34 Well, it's the Conservatives that have decided not to bring their Rwanda bill back
00:40 because actually this is just a gimmick for them.
00:42 This is just about them chasing headlines.
00:45 They're clearly in a mess and in chaos about their whole plan
00:48 because it involves 500 million pounds being written in cheques to Rwanda
00:54 for something that's only going to cover around 300 people.
00:57 This is two million pounds per person.
01:00 And what they're actually doing is just delaying plans
01:03 because what they want to do is just get a few symbolic flights off
01:06 before a general election.
01:08 It's about gimmicks. What we actually need is grip.