Scheme denounced as ‘shocking waste’ by new home secretary could have funded teachers, border force officers or renewable energy farms

Home secretary describes Tory policy that Labour has axed as ‘the biggest waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen’

‘I have been shocked by what I have found,’ home secretary tells the Commons

Yvette Cooper has redeployed 1,000 staff who had been working on the rwanda scheme into a new immigration enforcement programme

Yvette Cooper has redeployed 1,000 staff who had been working on the rwanda scheme into a new immigration enforcement programme

Previous UK government had built up backlog of 90,000 people whose claims it deemed ‘inadmissible’

Incumbent president has been in office since 2000

President wins 99.15% of the vote, allowing him to extend authoritarian rule by further five years

Incumbent since 2000 is seeking fourth seven-year term after winning more than 90% of votes in last three ballots

People held before planned removal from UK under Sunak government face disruption and relocation after release

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has today (Sunday 7 July) detailed the new border control policy the Labour government is set to implement after scrapping the controversial rwanda Bill. Saying “nobody should be making these boat crossings”, Ms Coope ...

Yvette Cooper said the new body, set to include MI5, would tackle the root cause of the small boats crisis ‘going after these dangerous criminals and bringing them to justice’

The prime minister said the rwanda policy was ‘never a deterrent’, pointing to the record number of small boat arrivals in the first six months of 2024

 

Keir Starmer faces Nato summit in Washington and is expected to scrap rwanda deportation scheme

It would be cheaper to put asylum seekers up in the Ritz hotel in Paris than the government’s rwanda scheme, Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth has claimed. Speaking to Sky News on Monday, 1 July, the shadow paymaster general criticised the cost of Conse ...

Costs of trying to deport asylum seekers cannot be got back if Labour wins and disbands policy as it has said it will

rwandan-backed rebels seize Kanyabayonga, says official, already home to thousands driven from their homes by conflict

Rishi Sunak has claimed migrants are “queuing up in Calais” waiting for a Labour government so they can come to the UK. The prime minister told The Sun’s Never Mind The Ballots leaders’ event that if Sir Keir Starmer becomes prime ...

Prime minister says he fought against predecessor’s plans and warns of migration surge if Labour scraps rwanda plan