Labour MPs Now Back a Rwanda-Style Deportation Scheme For Small Boat Migrants Amid ‘Dire’ Asylum Figures
Labour MPs have called for a Rwanda-style deportation scheme as official figures showed the number of asylum applications in the UK reaching a new record high. The Mail has more.
Home Office data showed a total of 111,084 people applied for asylum in the UK in the year to June – up 14% from 97,107 in the year to June 2024.
It is the highest number for any 12-month period since current records began in 2001.
Of the claims, 39% were made by people who arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel.
Just over a year ago, Labour MPs were elected to Parliament on a party manifesto that pledged to scrap the previous Tory government’s migration deal with Rwanda.
This would have seen Channel migrants given a one-way ticket to the African country, where they would have their asylum claims processed.
Sir Keir Starmer ended the Rwanda deal on his first full day as Prime Minister, but is yet to see little success in his pledge to instead “smash” people smuggling gangs.
He is now facing calls by Labour MPs to consider a similar scheme as they voice fears about the “dire” migration figures amid the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
In a recent article for Chad, his local newspaper, Mansfield MP Steve Yemm pointed to the effect of Donald Trump’s tough border policies in the US.
He wrote: “Labour must focus on innovative solutions like return hubs overseas and new bilateral agreements.
“Under those agreements, every small boat arrival would be sent not to a UK hotel but to a third country where they would stay even if their claim was upheld.
“If all 900 arrivals were deported on a Monday, and all 700 on the Tuesday, then how many might arrive on the Friday?
“Probably, we would see a US style collapse in numbers.”
The i Paper reported that another Labour MP had previously said “nothing should be off the table” when asked about a potential Rwanda-style scheme.
They called for a “proper deterrent” to stop asylum seekers crossing the Channel following the publication of the latest migration figures on Thursday.
Graham Stringer yesterday became the first Labour MP to call for Britain to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in a bid to tackle the Channel migrant crisis.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is conducting a review on the use of Article 8 of the ECHR – the right to private and family life – in migration cases in Britain.
Several deportation attempts have been halted by how the ECHR clause has been interpreted in UK law.
And, in June 2022, the European Court of Human Rights made an 11th-hour intervention to stop the first planned deportation flight of asylum seekers to Rwanda when the Tories were in power.
Mr Stringer, the Blackley and Middleton South MP told BBC Radio 4’s World at One: “What you’ve got to remember is most of the people crossing the Channel are young men, they have destroyed their papers before they get here, they’re coming from a completely civilised country in France.
“They’re paying international criminals to get here and the courts are saying they have a right to stay under the refugee convention, I assume, and possibly other conventions. That doesn’t seem reasonable to me.”
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Funny how the idea becomes a good one when their seats are threatened and flags are going up everywhere.
But would you really trust them to deliver?
Graham Stringer is the only Labour MP who has his head screwed on, so is a mystery why he’s still in the Labour Party.
Probably doesn’t realise he has a choice.
He was one of the few questioning lockdowns
Lord Glasman is another.
Labour really is the party for the hard of thinking. That’s both MPs and the supporters. The neurons aren’t there, the synapses aren’t firing.
A few MPs have now realised (in a year) what we worked out within seconds.
Can they think at all?
If labour are the party of hard of thinking then the conservatives are the party of short sightedness.
Detention centres – not repurposed hotels – and not paying some third country to deal with our problem. Detention centres do not have to be brutal, just not luxurious. Establish an ID (biometrics) for everyone who arrives illegally (small boat, overstaying visa, abusing visa etc) so they can be identified at a later time if necessary. Hard-nosed asylum decisions that are made to stick. If any come back after expulsion then prison.
The British government is running the “gimmigrants” scheme. We pay Serco to return the boats to France.
Liebour lies. Fancy that.
Have they asked Rwanda yet? They may have changed their minds.
****** on the boat has a more expensive phone than I do. It’s beyond laughable.
That was a poor edit mods, come on. I said “that f****r”, not “person”. Even your own articles have swearing in, one the other day had the slur “ragheads” in, which I’d never use but I wasn’t offended.
If you really have to edit it, just put a star in. I’m not self censoring though, considering the aforementioned articles.
“Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban”
“Probably, we would see a US style collapse in numbers.”
It seems the US collapse in numbers is due to a presidential executive order barring illegal aliens from receiving any welfare benefits.
All that is needed in the UK is to overturn Stalinist Starmer’s legal action against the previous government, which forced British Taxpayers to lavishly fund every Tom, Dick & Mohammed with welfare benefits.
They come for the FREE STUFF.
Take away the FREE STUFF.
And stop them working in the black economy by accommodating them in secure detention centres, with no ability to leave the premises.
Labour MPs are a bit slow on the uptake, aren’t they?
The “Conservative” Party has been virtually destroyed, due in large part to mass immigration, including the criminal migrant invasion.
And now Two-Tier is creating the same pending destruction for the Labour Party. Meanwhile, Cooper is setting the Government AGAINST the people by attempting to overturn the closure of The Bell Asylum Centre.
So now, terrified they’ll lose their lucrative sinecure in Westminster in 2029, a tiny handful of them are calling for offshore processing. You have to laugh at their utter shamelessness – and desperation.