Under new prime minister Keir Starmer, the UK calls off the Rwanda Deportation Plan

First deportation flights headed for Rwanda from the UK will finally not take off. The former British Prime Minister had promised they would leave the UK by early July, but his preparations have been thrown off by his party’s demise in the most recent election.

All was set in Rwanda to greet the deported asylum-seekers. Speaking on Saturday, July 6, recently appointed PM Keir Starmer claimed that originally signed in 2022’s refugee and migration plan was never successful.

“It has never discouraged anything. Almost the reverse, since everyone has worked out, especially the gangs running this, that the likelihood of ever visiting Rwanda was so low, less than 1%, that it was never a deterrent. The chances were not going and not being handled and staying here. so payed for lodging for a very, very lengthy period. It has had the full reverse impact. And I’m not ready to keep using gimmicks that don’t discourage behavior,” Starmer said.

According to the Rwanda proposal, some migrants crossing the English Channel to reach Britain would have their asylum petitions handled in Rwanda. The pact was touted by the Conservatives as “a significant deterrent” meant to stop people from crossing the English Channel to get to the UK.

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The deal’s price generated debate as well. Over a five-year period, the National Audit Office, the spending watchdog for the UK government, disclosed in March that each worker dispatched to Rwanda would be paid up to $190,000.

Plan eliminating regrets by Rwandan consultant Gatete Ruhumuliza. “We cannot abuse migrants since, once at a time, we were all refugees ourselves. My mother and father were born in exile; our president now was reared in exile; he left when he was four or five. I was born in exile. Few Rwandan intelligentsia or those who have not gone through exile exist. Ruhumuliza remarked, “This is an issue near to our heart.”

Should the application of migrants deported to Rwanda fail, they may have stayed in Eastern Africa. In 2023, over 29,000 migrants crossed the British Channel. has not responded yet to the plan’s abandonment.