New migrant deal is “pale pastiche” of Rwanda plan

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Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith says the new migrant treaty between the UK and France offers no real deterrent and claims the previous Rwanda policy would have stopped all small boat crossings.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The government inherited a one-for-one return scheme.

00:05The Rwanda deterrent would have been successful in stopping every single boat

00:10because it would have returned everybody and thereby made it impossible

00:13for people smugglers to sell that passage to the United Kingdom.

00:18Yvette Cooper, as Home Secretary, cancelled that.

00:21And now here we are, after presiding over the biggest increase in arrivals to these shores

00:26since the Norman Conquest, one year later a pale pastiche of that scheme,

00:31which I think within its own terms won't be successful

00:34because if you've got a 90 to 95% chance of being allowed by this Home Secretary

00:40to stay in the United Kingdom, only a 5% chance of being returned to France,

00:45then I think that will continue to see the people smugglers have that incentive

00:49to be able to sell tickets to come to this country.

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