MPs have wasted no time in tearing into the Tories after their last-ditch attempt to salvage Rishi Sunak’s doomed Rwanda asylum scheme was shot down in flames. A desperate effort to keep the Safety of Rwanda Act on the books was dismissed outright, with Labour Minister Dame Angela Eagle branding the Conservatives as living in a “fantasy land” for trying to defend the controversial policy. She didn’t hold back, calling the Act “one of the most catastrophic pieces of legislation that Parliament has ever had to deal with.”
The scheme has already cost taxpayers a staggering £700 million, yet it resulted in just four people voluntarily agreeing to be sent to Rwanda. Now, with Labour preparing to repeal the Act under its Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, Tory MP Matt Vickers attempted to push through an amendment to keep it alive. The response? Total rejection. A cross-party committee voted it down by 11 votes to three, effectively putting the final nail in the coffin.
