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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Sam Blewett

Keir Starmer will scrap controversial Rwanda migrant policy even if Channel crossings decline

Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to scrap plans to forcibly remove asylum seekers to Rwanda even if the policy is deemed legal by the courts and such action reduces the number of unauthorised Channel crossings.

The Labour leader was clear he would reverse the “hugely expensive” and “wrong” scheme which he said would only ever impact a very small proportion of migrants crossing the Channel.

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