There is nothing more toxic for disaffected voters than unfulfilled pledges
Rishi Sunak at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday to off-shore processing of illegal asylum seekers to the African nation. The original goal for the first flight taking off in June 2022 would now feel laughably optimistic were it not so depressing. On Wednesday alone, 514 migrants crossed the Channel in 10 boats, the highest in one day this year. With 4,000 migrants crossing in 2024 so far, the challenge is becoming ever greater and frustrations are ever mounting.
With opposition to Rwanda still intense, is it time to keep going or perhaps put the entire plan to bed? To use a tired political cliche, there is no alternative. Years into this debacle and there is little choice for Rishi Sunak to keep going and do everything he can to get the law passed and flights off the ground if he wants to maintain any trust on immigration. There is a principled reason why it matters: if you arrive in the UK illegally, you should have no viable route to stay.
Breaking the pernicious business model of people smugglers is not only the moral thing to do to restore control of our borders, it is also foundational to any recovery for Sunak or the Conservative Party’s standing. The rise of Reform UK over the last year is, nearly all of their supporters come from disaffected Tories, whereas Ukip took many of its supporters from the Labour Party.
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