Deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda may well be the most obscene and morally debased nadir of a Conservative government that has, but mostly on technocratic grounds – as “expensive” and “unworkable”. These are secondary objections. If we are to have a functioning asylum policy, we need a rational debate, and that requires politicians to speak less like bureaucratic functionaries and more like political leaders with clear morals.
neighbouring their own. Turkey, which shares a land border with Syria, Iran and Iraq, is currently home to nearly four million refugees. In the last decade – all under Conservative governments – the UK has granted asylum or humanitarian protection to Rwandans fleeing the country.if reports were true that Labour was considering keeping the Rwanda scheme, even temporarily, Keir Starmer replied categorically: “No.” Adding: “I don’t believe in the scheme, I don’t believe it will work.