British Prime Minister Keir Starmer today confirmed, that his newly formed government will not continue his predecessor's policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda, ending this scheme before even one plane had taken off to the African country, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
"The Rwanda scheme was dead and buried before it started. It has never been a deterrent (to small boat crossings)," Starmer said at a press conference.
"I am not prepared to continue with tricks that do not act as a deterrent."
After seeing how Rishi Sunak's promise to "stop the boats" failed, while more than £300m was spent on the Rwanda scheme without a single evacuation flight taking off, Labor made another promise to voters - to 'break up criminal gangs with boats', the Guardian reported.< /p>
The newspaper noted that the party's manifesto said it would create a new Border Security Command, including hundreds of specialist investigators, intelligence officers and cross-border police officers. The new government plans to use the money saved by canceling the Rwanda policy to fund the unit to "pursue, intercept and arrest those responsible for this nefarious trade".