Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been scolded for his “pathetic” efforts to “smash the gangs” and keep migrant numbers under control, following the Government’s latest plan to deport illegal migrants.
The United Nations’ refugee agency has backed the UK Government’s plan to deport rejected asylum seekers to “return hubs” abroad.
The plan would see the Government pay countries in the Balkans to take those who have exhausted all appeals processes.
A UK Government source said the UN’s endorsement was a helpful intervention that could make the legal pathway to some form of return hub model smoother.
Lizzie Cundy has hit out at Keir Starmer’s latest plan to tackle illegal migration, claiming he ‘couldn’t smash an Easter egg’
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Discussing the plans on GB News, commentator Lizzie Cundy questioned how the “hubs” are “any different from Rwanda”, a scheme which was binned due to the Prime Minister’s “ego”.
Cundy fumed: “I’ve always said we need to leave the ECHR, but how is this different to Rwanda? It was already set in place.
“It seems extraordinary. So really it’s Starmer’s ego which cancelled Rwanda, and now he’s doing the same here – it just doesn’t make sense.”
Hitting out at Labour’s pledge to “smash the gangs”, Cundy claimed: “For him saying he’s smashing the gangs, he couldn’t smash the top of his Easter egg this Easter.”
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The United Nation’s refugee agency has endorsed Labour’s plan to deport rejected asylum seekers to ‘return hubs’GETTYQuestioning the details of Labour’s latest plan, Cundy questioned the level of “detail” and “strategy” behind his latest incentive.
Cundy explained: “As usual with Keir Starmer, where’s the detail? Where’s the strategy? Where’s the targets?
“He needs to stop acting like an out of work barrister and give us some detail.”
Criticising Starmer’s decision to remove the Rwanda scheme from the Government’s efforts to tackle illegal migration, Cundy told GB News: “We ploughed millions into Rwanda. How is this really making sense? Why didn’t he continue with Rwanda? It was a deterrent.
Cundy told GB News that the efforts to tackle illegal migration are ‘pathetic’
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“Look at the amount of boats that have come over – 705 crossed the Channel in one day, 2,000 this week. It’s 43 per cent up than it was this time last year. It’s pathetic.”
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has indicated it would support such arrangements as long as they don’t contradict its policy to protect refugees.
The UNHCR has set out how such hubs could work while meeting its legal standards in a document published earlier this week.
The Home Office confirmed Home Secretary Yvette Cooper met with UN’s high commissioner for refugees Fillipo Grandi to discuss the “principle of returns hubs” – but said reports about “payments and specific locations are not right”.
