Former minister presents amendments to Rwanda plan
Former immigration minister Robert Jenrick warns MPs that amendments from the right of the Conservative Party to the government’s Rwanda plan “represent the last opportunity” to make a strong deterrent to small boat crossings. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 The current bill doesn't work.
00:04 And the test of whether it works is not can we get a few symbolic flights off in the months ahead
00:10 with a small number of illegal migrants on them.
00:14 The test is can we create the kind of sustainable deterrent that we set out to achieve.
00:22 The sustainable deterrent that my right honourable friend the Member for Witton set out to achieve
00:28 when she secured this groundbreaking deal with Rwanda.
00:32 The kind of deterrent that protects not just this country for generations to come
00:37 from the scourge of illegal migration, but the whole continent of Europe.
00:42 The amendments that have been brought forward in my name and that of my honourable friend the Member for Stone
00:48 in four groups, two of which will be heard and discussed today, two tomorrow,
00:52 seek to address the evident flaws of the bill and they represent the last opportunity
00:58 for us to get this policy right.