Is ‘Stop the boats’ a slogan without a solution?
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🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, what would Rishi Sunak's plan to stop the boats? |
| 0:15.0 | Actually achieve. |
| 0:17.0 | The Guardian is a very important person to us. |
| 0:25.0 | People must know that if they come here illegally, |
| 0:29.0 | it will result in their detention and swift removal. |
| 0:34.0 | Once this happens, and they know it will happen, |
| 0:38.0 | they will not come and the boats will stop. |
| 0:42.0 | Rishi Sunak isn't the first Conservative Prime Minister to make a pledge like this. |
| 0:47.0 | In the past four years, Tory governments have proposed more than 40 schemes |
| 0:53.0 | to send home the people who are crossing the channel, many of them in flimsy rubber boats. |
| 0:58.0 | We need to make sure that the polling people traffic is don't succeed in bringing small boats crossing this channel. |
| 1:05.0 | We're very clear that everyone who enters the UK illegally will be considered |
| 1:11.0 | for resettlement and being brought over to Rwanda. |
| 1:16.0 | I would love to be having a front page of the telegraph and a plane taking off to Rwanda. |
| 1:23.0 | That's my dream. |
| 1:24.0 | Just last year, the government passed a new law on immigration called the Nationality and Borders Act. |
| 1:31.0 | The headline idea of that was for them to send people to Rwanda on a one-way ticket |
| 1:36.0 | while their asylum claims are decided upon. |
| 1:39.0 | It's faced huge legal challenges, and more than a year after its introduction, |
| 1:44.0 | no one has been sent to Rwanda. |
| 1:47.0 | Even Sunak and Suella Bravaman, the home secretary, admit it's not working yet. |
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