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PM blames Labour for flights delay

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Vincent
Published date23 April 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
The Prime Minister said "enough is enough" and MPs and peers will sit through the night (last night) if necessary to get the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill passed

However, Mr Sunak acknowledged it will still be 10 to 12 weeks before the first plane carrying asylum seekers takes off. After that, there will be "multiple flights a month through the summer and beyond".

He blamed Labour opposition to the plan for the delay, although his own government had not taken earlier opportunities to rush the legislation through Parliament.

Only now has he decided Parliament will sit for as long as it takes to end the deadlock between the Lords and Commons over the Bill, which is aimed at making the plan to send asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda legally watertight.

Taking aim at Sir Keir Starmer's party, Mr Sunak said it will be a choice at the general election between "one party that's going to deliver" on stopping the boats and a Labour Party that has "actively tried to frustrate us at every turn".

"We can't keep playing this whacka-mole strategy, dealing with it in a piecemeal fashion," he said. "You need a systematic deterrent, that's why the...

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