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Farage: Rwanda plan is ‘no deterrent’
Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan will not deter small boat Channel crossings, according to Nigel Farage.
He also said that ministers repeatedly hailing a fall in crossings this year amounted to nothing more than cold comfort.
Speaking to GB News, Mr Farage said: “It is no deterrent, everyone knows it, and whilst the numbers are down, if I’d said to you five years ago that 30,000 young men would cross the English Channel in dinghies and be allowed to stay I mean, you’d have thought I’d been smoking something.
“So the fact that numbers are not as bad as last year, frankly, to hang on to that is really Cold Comfort Farm.”
Tory Rwanda rebels lack ‘courage of their own convictions’, claims Farage
Nigel Farage claimed Tory rebels who abstained on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill rather than voting against it lacked the “courage of their own convictions”.
He told GB News: “[The Prime Minister and Home Secretary are] confident they’ve got the party under control; confident that the rebels frankly haven’t got the courage of their own convictions.
“I mean, how can you one day argue that what’s being done will make no blooming difference and then the next day, effectively go along with it by just sitting on the benches abstaining, and allowing the Government to win?
“The really big question here is will this make any difference anyway? And the answer is, absolutely not. Number one, it won’t stop any of the individual legal claims that we know just how long that whole process takes. This is all fiddling while Rome burns.”
Dozens of Tory rebels abstained on the Rwanda Bill vote on Tuesday. They have warned the Government that they will vote down the Bill in the new year if their demands for the legislation to be toughened up are not listened to.
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