Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda bill might have got through parliament, but are his own ministers convinced it will work? Among the sceptics appears to be Lord Cameron, who seemed a little apprehensive this morning when grilled on the government’s immigration plan. It’s hardly the best look when your own Foreign Secretary appears unconvinced…
Cameron was asked by interviewer Anushka Asthana on ITV’s Peston show whether he would have pursued this same policy if he still was in the top job. A rather reluctant Cameron replied: ‘Well, we had a totally different situation where you could return people directly to France. I’d love that situation to be the case again.’ Hardly a full-throated defence. The newly-created peer continued:
That’s the most sensible thing. People land on a beach in Kent, take them straight back to France, you therefore break the model of the people smugglers. But that’s not available at the moment.
Asthana suggested that Brexit might be to blame.
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