It was another clear win for Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions today. The Labour leader decided to take a mocking tilt at the latest iteration of the Rwanda policy.
He asked Rishi Sunak how successful it had been: ‘If the purpose of the Rwanda gimmick was to solve a political headache of the Tories’ own making, to get people out of the country who they simply couldn’t deal with, then it’s been a resounding success. After all, they’ve managed to send three Home Secretaries so the whole country can be grateful. Apart from members of his own cabinet, how many people has the Prime Minister sent to Rwanda?’
The mockery from Starmer sticks because so few of Sunak’s backbenchers are prepared to cheer him along on this
Sunak’s response was that this was the right policy and the Labour leader was ‘on the side of the people smugglers’. Starmer then became rather lawyerly and started reading from sections of the treaty that James Cleverly signed yesterday in Kigali.
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