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Keir Starmer says scrapping UK’s Rwanda migrant deportation plan

'I'm not prepared to continue with gimmicks that don't act as a deterrent,' says British Prime Minister Keir Starmer [Phil Noble/Reuters]

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said he will not continue with the previous Conservative government’s policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, in a move welcomed by rights advocates as long overdue.

“The Rwanda scheme was dead and buried before it started. It’s never been a deterrent,” Starmer told his first news conference on Saturday, after his Labour Party won a landslide in the general election.

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