Rwanda delayed: Will Sunak ever get planes off the ground?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Rishi is making those naughty Lords stay in the chamber until they pass his Rwanda Bill without pesky amendments. That may come in the early hours of tomorrow morning.
But even once the legal hurdles are passed, the practicalities will still be fiendish. Why has the first plane date been delayed again? Which airline is willing to take on the legal risk? How do immigrants' 'inadmissability appeals' work? And why did the government slip out the 24% INCREASE on small boat arrivals during this morning's press conference?
Later, what actually happened in that encounter between the policeman and the antisemitism campaigner.
And - Huw Edwards resigns from the BBC - what happens now.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | This is one of the most complex operational endeavours the Home Office has carried out. |
| 0:19.0 | But we are ready. Plans are in place. |
| 0:22.6 | And these flights will go, come what may. |
| 0:25.6 | No foreign court will stop us from getting flights off. |
| 0:30.6 | Rwanda is ready too. |
| 0:32.6 | Today we've been told that very little of that is true. |
| 0:36.6 | They're not ready and plans are not in place. |
| 0:41.8 | And even once the legal challenges are behind the Prime Minister, he's still got a mountain to |
| 0:48.2 | climb to actually get those flights to Rwanda off the ground. And one of the things not mentioned by Rishi |
| 0:55.3 | Sunak today was the fact that the latest figures show that the number of illegal |
| 1:00.9 | crossings so far this year compared to last year is up 24%. We've known about the Rwanda scheme. |
| 1:10.4 | It doesn't seem to be deterring anybody. |
| 1:14.3 | And yet, he has said that success is stopping the boats. |
| 1:19.9 | Is he any closer to achieving that? |
| 1:23.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:27.9 | It's John. It's Emily. It's John. Welcome to the news agents. The Newsagents. |
| 1:29.9 | It's John. |
| 1:30.8 | It's Emily. |
| 1:31.6 | And what we heard from Rishi Sunak today was him throwing the kitchen sink, |
| 1:37.7 | everything that government has got to get this Rwanda scheme off the ground. |
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