New UK Prime Minister Starmer says controversial Rwanda deportation plan is ‘dead and buried’
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says a controversial Conservative policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is “dead and buried.” Starmer said Saturday that the plan was done before it started. Starmer said in his first news conference that it’s never acted as a deterrent. The move was one of Starmer’s first acts in office, though it was widely expected. He had said during his campaign that he would ditch the plan that has cost hundreds of millions of dollars, but never taken flight. The Rwanda plan was one of the showcase policies of former Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to try to curb migrants from making dangerous English Channel crossings.
