The Labour Government is poised to scrap the Rwanda scheme just as it was finally ready for take-off, to the delight of migrants waiting to cross the Channel. Labour has failed to explain in detail how its proposals will stem the flow of migrants.
Labour has insisted it was right to axe the £290million Rwanda deportations scheme, after Germany suggested the EU take over facilities paid for by UK taxpayers to house its own unwanted migrants.
It came as Home Secretary Yvette Cooper prepared to chair a summit today aimed at destroying the criminal gangs involved in smuggling people from France in small boats, after the deadliest crossing of the year so far. Mr Jenrick told Sky News: 'Yvette Cooper will meet the National Crime Agency and police chiefs today, and they'll tell her what they told me when I was the minister, which is that although it's important that we do that work, it is not sufficient. You have to have a deterrent.'
In the latest fatal incident a boat was 'ripped open' and sank off the northern French coast of Cap Gris-Nez. Only eight people were wearing a life jacket. 'Rwanda was I think a very bold attempt by the last government that those who are already in safe countries, who are saying they fear persecution back home, won't be sent back home actually, there is an alternative where you can live your life safely and that is Rwanda.But Tory leadership frontrunner Robert Jenrick accused Labour of abandoning 'the one credible deterrent' against Channel migrant boats.
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS Pregnant woman and six children among 12 migrants killed in Channel boat tragedy 'Women and children were packed into an unsafe boat which literally collapsed in the water this week. MailOnline calculates the figure to be at least 35, including two people who died on August 11 and a woman who suffocated in an overcrowded boat in July.
Tuesday's tragic incident comes after French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged to work closer together to dismantle migrant smuggling routes last week An analysis commissioned by the Home Secretary which dives into the gangs' capability will be examined at the summit, which will also consider closer collaboration with European agencies such as Europol, and advancing the new Border Security Command.
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