By David Furness There has been a startling rise in Home Office expenditure on immigration. In 2019-2020, the cost of dealing with illegal migration was about £700 million; by 2023-2024, the price had surged to £6.6 billion, representing an incredible ...
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By Paul Adams The UK – Rwanda Treaty completed its ratification process through its rather tortuous process of parliamentary ‘ping-pong’ on 25 April 2024. This took several weeks of to-ing and fro-ing between the House of Commons and the unelected ...
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By David Furness The plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda has been ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court. The judgement backed an Appeal Court decision that the policy is unlawful under Britain’s Human Rights Act, which incorporates the European Convention ...
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In my previous article published on 3rd May (“Rwanda Flight of Fantasy”), I concluded sadly that the proposal to send illegal immigrants to Rwanda was typical Boris bluster, and there was little prospect of this fantasy ever coming to fruition. ...
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The government’s proposal to fly some of the Channel migrants to Rwanda has generated a lot of scaremongering media reports as well as the entirely predictable scandalised opposition from the usual suspects. But what are the facts? The first thing ...
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