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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent

Alexander Downer features in UK video promoting Britain’s ‘new plan for immigration’

Former Australian foreign affairs minister, Alexander Downer has appeared in a UK Home Office video warning asylum seekers who pay people smugglers will not be settled in Britain.
Former Australian foreign affairs minister, Alexander Downer has appeared in a UK Home Office video warning asylum seekers who pay people smugglers will not be settled in Britain. Photograph: Lukas Coch/EPA

The former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer has appeared front-and-centre of a UK Home Office video promoting the British government’s controversial “new plan for immigration” which includes sending asylum seekers to Rwanda.

“Well, basically it’s a racket which is run by people smugglers to make money – and they make huge amounts of money,” Downer says in the video.

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