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The UK’s general election promises to favor migrants as the new Prime Minister said he is going to stop the controversial Rwanda Plan.
The plan is to fly thousands of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda. However, the new Prime Minister, in his first major policy announcement after winning the election, has said his government will not go on with the plan.
Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government first announced plans to send migrants who arrived in the UK without permission to Rwanda in 2022. Mr Sunak’s government said it would put an end to asylum seekers arriving on small boats. However, no one was sent to Rwanda under the plan due to years of legal challenges.
Starmer said at his press conference that the plan would be scrapped because only about 1 percent of asylum would have been removed and it would have failed as a deterrent.
Although Starmer with one of the largest majorities in modern British history, he faces a number of challenges, including improving struggling public services and reviving a weak economy.
In a related development, the former home secretary, Suella Braverman said the Conservatives lost the election because of Mr Sunak’s “idiotic strategy”.
The former home secretary indicted her party for failing in office and deserved the result.
