Starmer Chameleon is at it again. Now Sir Keir has announced plans for a Rwanda-style immigration scheme after scrapping a rather similar idea put forward under Rishi Sunak’s Conservative party. It transpires that the Prime Minister has opened formal talks with a number of Balkan states about sending asylum seekers to detention centres overseas – despite blasting the Tory party’s Rwanda scheme as a ‘gimmick’. Talk about a U-turn!
During his trip to Albania today, Sir Keir announced that the government is considering sending failed asylum seekers to ‘return hubs’ overseas after they have exhausted all appeal options. Instead of holding people in the UK, the Labour lot want to send them to the Balkans. Speaking in Tirana today, Starmer insisted:
What now we want to do and are having discussions of, talks of, is return hubs which is where someone has been through the system in the UK, they need to be returned and we have to make sure they’re returned effectively and we’ll do that, if we can, through return hubs. So that’s what the talks are about. I would say in this area no single measure is going to be the measure that is, if you like, a silver bullet.
By putting it all together _ arrests, seizures, agreements with other countries, returning people who shouldn’t be here, and return hubs, if we can through these talks to add to our armoury, will allow us to bear down on this vile trade and to make sure that we stop those people crossing the Channel.
But while Downing Street is adamant that the plans are ‘entirely different’ to the Conservative government’s deportation scheme, a Whitehall source admitted to the Mail that the plan was ‘Rwanda-lite’ and could act as a deterrent for failed asylum seekers. Sir Keir’s announcement today follows YouGov polling this week that showed that 50 per cent of Brits now consider immigration to be the most pressing problem facing the UK. Will today’s announcement persuade voters that Labour is serious about tackling the issue? Stay tuned…
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