Rishi Sunak to launch new bill to ending asylum seeker claims from small boat arrivals | 5 News

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Rishi Sunak to launch new bill to ending asylum seeker claims from small boat arrivals | 5 News



If the government gets its way, people arriving like this will not be allowed to claim asylum in future. They'll be sent to a safe country like Rwanda where the government's done a deal and they will be banned from coming here for life. The principle is those seeking asylum should only come through government sponsored schemes. Let's not forget that many people that are on these boats have traveled through a variety of safe countries to get here and we've got to ensure that we've got enough support for our people that are here in the UK. We've taken 450,000 plus people via those safe routes since 2015 but I don't think that we should be allowing the illegal routes to continue. The current system is clearly struggling. Last year more than 45,000 people crossed the channel in small boats.

This year nearly 3,000 have already done so but there is a backlog of 160,000 waiting for their asylum requests here to be processed. Rafi Hotak came here after working with the British military in Afghanistan. He says he couldn't wait for a government sponsored scheme and neither can Afghans now. People who are fleeing their country is because their life is at risk. Now waiting till you provide them a scheme and will that scheme include them or not that's something that they cannot bet on. They need to get out right now. Others say people will still cross the channel but if they have no hope of asylum they'll just disappear.

Where will the tens of thousands of people that arrive here seeking our protection go? Our fear is that they will go into destitution, homelessness and be lost into our streets. That will cause absolute chaos but most importantly it will call untold human misery. At the end of the week the Prime Minister will meet the French President. Good cooperation with France is vital to control the channel crossings but Rishi Sunak wants his new law as well. Well let's speak to Andy live at Westminster for us now. Andy we've talked a little bit there about the detail. We know how it will work in principle but take us through exactly how it will work.

Yes and while lots of people have moral questions about this policy a lot of people have very practical questions as well. For a start you're talking about detaining several thousand people while you try and go through the process of deporting them again. Where are those people going to be detained? And also maybe the bigger question where are people going to be sent back to? There doesn't seem to be any question of sending them back to France for instance where most people have come from on those small boats. The government talks about sending them to a safe third country or Rwanda. Rwanda there is a government deal to send people to Rwanda but so far no one has actually been sent to Rwanda because that has been stopped in the courts. There are estimates that it won't the first flight to Rwanda won't happen before next year so there are enormous practical difficulties about enforcing this but Rishi Sunak is determined to press ahead. We'll get the details tomorrow and in answer to his critics a lot of people will be saying well at least Rishi Sunak is trying to do something where others are simply saying objecting to the policy but have no practical answer themselves.

Andy so a different story now the Johnson family they're back in the headlines. Yes Boris Johnson trying to put his father or rather to make his father Stanley Johnson a knight to give him a knighthood now it's not been confirmed but it's also not been denied by Boris Johnson. That also goes along with the fact that Boris Johnson is trying to put something like a hundred people into the house of the lords or to give them honours potentially that is allowed under the basis of a prime minister who's leaving office he gets a resignation on his list that's already causing quite a lot of difficulty a lot of people objecting to this actually the only person who can block this sort of honour and someone going into the house of lords as well is the prime minister Rishi Sunak and the question is is that a fight that Rishi Sunak at this point really wants to have.



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