Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he “is determined to do everything” to make the Rwanda plan happen. He adds his “patience is wearing thin like everyone else’s”. This comes after the Supreme Court called the deportation scheme ‘unlawful.’
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00:00 Well, it's incredibly important to me that we stop the boats.
00:02 That's why at the beginning of this year,
00:03 when I set out my five priorities,
00:05 one of them was clearly to stop the boats.
00:06 The first thing to say is we're making progress.
00:08 People may not know this, that this year,
00:11 because of all the things that we've done,
00:12 the number of illegal migrants crossing to the UK
00:14 is down by a third.
00:16 Everyone told me that wasn't possible,
00:17 but because we worked really hard,
00:19 we're returning thousands of people to places like Albania.
00:22 We've got the numbers down by a third already,
00:24 but we're not gonna stop there.
00:25 That's progress, but I wanna finish the job,
00:27 and that means getting Rwanda up and running.
00:29 I'm determined to do everything it takes to make that happen,
00:32 and that means bringing forward emergency legislation
00:35 that will declare that Rwanda is safe for these purposes.
00:38 We've negotiated a new treaty with them,
00:40 and we will make sure that domestic courts
00:42 cannot block systemically our flights to Rwanda,
00:45 and I've been also very clear
00:47 that I won't let a foreign court stop us getting a flight off.
00:49 That's my plan, and I'm gonna work night and day
00:51 to make it happen.
00:52 People are sick of this merry-go-round.
00:54 I want to end it.
00:55 My patience is wearing thin, like everyone else's.
00:58 That's why our emergency legislation
01:00 will make it crystal clear that Rwanda is safe
01:03 for these purposes.
01:04 It meets all the concerns that people have raised
01:07 because of our new arrangement with them,
01:08 and we wanna stop any more domestic challenges
01:11 to this programme, and I've also been clear
01:14 that we won't let a foreign court stand in the way
01:15 of us getting a flight off to Rwanda.
01:17 It doesn't have to take a long time
01:19 to get legislation through,
01:20 and that's a question for the Labour Party.
01:22 We're determined to get this through as quickly as possible,
01:24 so the real question is, are the Labour Party
01:26 gonna stand in the way and stop this from happening,
01:28 or are they gonna work with us and support this bill
01:31 so we can get it through as quickly as possible?
01:33 I know that the British people want this problem gripped.
01:35 I know the British people will want this new law to pass
01:38 so we can get flights off to Rwanda.
01:40 So really, the question is for Keir Starmer
01:41 and Labour Party.