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Coffee House Shots

Is the government's Rwandan immigration plan viable?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This week the government has announced a pilot scheme meant to address the increasing number of asylum seekers dangerously crossing the English Channel. While some have criticised this plan as expensive and immoral it could prove to be popular among large swathes of Conservative voters.

Cindy Yu talks with Isabel Hardman and Katy Balls about this new policy as well as giving us a partygate update.

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0:21.6

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,

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the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

0:25.2

I'm Cindy U and I'm joined by Ezwell Hardman and Katie Walsh.

0:28.9

So as well, today we're hearing this news about this partnership with the Government of

0:32.9

Rwanda over how to deal with refugees coming from across the channel. Can you tell us about

0:38.0

what we know about these plans? Yes, so as far as we have been told, it is a trial for some

0:47.6

asylum seekers who cross the channel and arrive in the UK will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda

0:56.4

where they will not be processed and then returned to the UK but they will be given a

1:02.0

accommodation in a detention centres in Rwanda instead of in the UK.

1:08.9

And this is according to Boris Johnson going to save countless lives from human trafficking

1:16.4

and will stop people's smugglers. Now there's obviously a problem with these channel crossings

1:23.6

which is that people are dying and they are being exploited by human traffickers.

1:27.7

That's something that the refugee council were very clear about this morning when they were

1:32.2

responding to this policy announcement but the British Government has failed to solve this problem

1:39.8

of the channel crossings and has been looking around for quite some time to find a country

1:46.4

to take asylum seekers for some kind of offshore processing and it has now found Rwanda is

1:53.3

happy to do this and it is a very politically useful announcement to make particularly when you've

1:59.7

just been fined by the police for a lockdown party with a cake ambush involved. This is a sort of

2:05.8

ambush by policy to try to move the conversation on really for the next two years until the general

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