{"id":180654,"date":"2023-10-08T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T10:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=180654"},"modified":"2023-10-08T10:21:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T10:21:07","slug":"keir-starmer-vows-to-scrap-rwanda-deportation-plan-even-if-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/keir-starmer-vows-to-scrap-rwanda-deportation-plan-even-if-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer vows to scrap Rwanda deportation plan even if it WORKS"},"content":{"rendered":"
Keir Starmer\u00a0today vowed to scrap Rwanda\u00a0deportations even if they are working should he become PM.<\/span><\/p>\n The Labour leader insisted the policy was ‘wrong’ and too expensive as he ruled out keeping it under any circumstances.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman have put the idea at the heart of their push to ‘Stop the Boats’, saying would-be migrants will be deterred if they know they will not stay in the UK.<\/p>\n Supreme Court justices are due to hear arguments from the\u00a0Home Office\u00a0tomorrow that legal blocks on the scheme should be lifted.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Keir Starmer (pictured arriving for conference in Liverpool today) insisted the Rwanda policy was ‘wrong’ and too expensive as he ruled out keeping it under any circumstances<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A group of Channel migrants being brought ashore in Kent last week<\/p>\n Asked in a\u00a0BBC\u00a0interview whether he would ditch the policy even if it is ruled legal and cuts Channel crossings, Sir Keir said: ‘Yes.<\/p>\n ‘I think it’s the wrong policy, it’s hugely expensive. It’s a tiny number of individuals who would go to Rwanda and the real problem is at source.<\/p>\n ‘You’re putting this to me on the basis that it’s working, we’ve been told by the Government time and again that even saying they’ve got a Rwanda scheme will reduce the numbers \u2013 that hasn’t happened.’<\/p>\n Instead Sir Keir said he would work with other countries to ‘smash the criminal gangs who are running this vile trade’ of people smuggling.<\/p>\n If the Rwanda scheme is given the go-ahead by British courts, the European Court of Human Rights could still attempt to block it with an interim injunction.<\/p>\n That could theoretically be ignored under measures in the new Illegal Migration Act earlier this year.<\/p>\n However, senior Tories believe Attorney General Victoria Prentis could try and block the move.<\/p>\n It would leave the Prime Minister with the choice of giving in to the European court or overruling the Government’s chief law officer.<\/p>\n Ministers are drawing up emergency legislation that would attempt to carve out illegal migration from the jurisdiction of the ECHR in the event of a Supreme Court defeat.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman have put the idea at the heart of their push to ‘Stop the Boats’, saying would-be migrants will be deterred if they know they will not stay in the UK<\/p>\n Ms Braverman is understood to believe a ‘halfway house’ option would be to exclude illegal migrants from the remit of human rights laws.<\/p>\n Parliament would be asked to pass the new measures revoking the ECHR in all cases involving small boat migrants and other ‘irregular’ arrivals.<\/p>\n It would mean unelected judges at home and abroad could no longer interfere in Parliament’s decisions on illegal migration.<\/p>\n However, the legislation would be ‘very difficult’ to get through in the time available before the next general election.<\/p>\n