Labour MP accuses Sunak’ of ‘whinging’ over Rwanda as he claims government is ‘scrambling’ to get flights away

Labour MP says Sunak's government 'scrambling' to get Rwanda flights off the groundReuters

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00:00could be forgiven for concluding that the truth of the matter is that ministers have been deliberately

00:05stringing this out for two reasons. Firstly, because they thought that they could make some

00:10grubby political capital from the delay, and secondly because they've been scrambling to get

00:15a flight organised and all the other logistics that are not in place. Indeed, the Prime Minister

00:21admitted this in his somewhat whinging and butt-passing press conference this morning,

00:26that the first flight to Rwanda won't take off until, checks notes, July. I mean July,

00:32really. Today is the 22nd of April. We were initially told that this was emergency legislation,

00:38and yet we're now being told that there'll be a 10 to 12 week delay in getting the first flight

00:42off the ground. Madam Deputy Speaker, I don't know about what your definition of an emergency is,

00:49but a 10 to 12 week response time does seem to be a bit of a stretch.