Sunak’s snap election looks like a calamitous error
Spectator (UK)May 26
UK: Detained Migrants Released Over 'Rwanda Plan' Doubts
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The Facts
According to a report published by the Telegraph, nearly 200 migrants detained by the UK's Home Office have been granted bail by the courts, with immigration judges citing doubts that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's plan to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda will be in effect after the general election.
The Conservative party's Rwanda plan was set to see the first flight depart on July 24. However, the scheme is expected to be scrapped if Sunak is voted out of power, as the Labour Party — which, according to exit polls, has won the election — considers it an "absurd and wasteful" policy.
The Spin
Tory narrative
Voters in the UK were presented with a stark choice: either the party that will take decisive action against illegal migration or the party migrants are hoping will win. A Labour win means a new influx of migrants crossing the English Channel, as smuggling gangs eagerly await a soft-on-migration Labour to ascend to power. These releases are a harbinger of the migration chaos on the horizon.
Labour narrative
The Rwanda plan was a gimmick from the start, and the courts are doing the correct thing by recognizing how improbable and inhumane it was. Labour will commit to a migration and asylum system that is humane and sensible, as the Rwanda plan proved to be nothing more than a costly campaign advertisement for the outgoing Conservatives.
Reform narrative
Neither the Conservatives nor Labour have what it takes to stop illegal migration. While Labour will allow for open borders, the Conservatives used the Rwanda plan as a ploy to draw in the countless Britons fed up with the flood of migrants. Sunak and the Tories have both failed to deliver on any progress toward closing the UK's borders.