One of the major themes of the current election campaign is the attempt by Rishi Sunak to draw a dividing line between the Tories and Labour on the issue of immigration, particularly when it comes to the Rwanda scheme. Today, the Conservative party sought to highlight the issue in its manifesto.
The manifesto claims a Conservative government would: ‘stop the boats by removing illegal migrants to Rwanda’, ‘stop illegal migrants bringing spurious legal challenges’ and ‘work with other countries to rewrite asylum treaties’. It also repeated a slogan that Sunak had previously trailed at the first televised debate with Keir Starmer that ‘if we are forced to choose between our security and the jurisdiction of a foreign court, including the European Court of Human Rights, we will always choose our security’.
Rishi Sunak’s attempt to weaponise the issue of immigration and human rights as an election issue is not going very well
In truth, Rishi Sunak’s attempt to weaponise the issue of immigration and human rights as an election issue is not going very well.
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