Former Prime Minister Sir John Major has criticized the previous government’s Rwanda asylum plan, branding it “un-Conservative and un-British”. The scheme aimed to deter people crossing the Channel in small boats by sending some migrants who arrived in the UK illegally to the east African country. However, the plan was stalled by legal challenges and scrapped by the new Labour government, with no migrants sent to Rwanda under the scheme.
In an interview with the BBC’s Amol Rajan, Sir John, who was Tory PM from 1990 to 1997, said he thought the plan was “odious”.I thought it was un-Conservative, un-British, if one dare say in a secular society, un-Christian, and unconscionable and I thought that this is really not the way to treat people,” he said.
Challenged over whether the scheme was a necessary deterrent to stop small boat crossings, Sir John said: “Are they seriously saying to me that somewhere in the backwoods of some North Africa country, they actually know what the British Parliament has legislated for? I think not. He added: “If it actually happened it might have been [a deterrent] – but it would still have been odious in my view.
Source: BBC
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