Another interesting and major development is associated with the UK, where the newly elected Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared that his administration will not proceed with the previous Conservative government’s earlier policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda.
In his first press conference after his political party secured a wide victory in the general election, Starmer referred to the Rwanda plan as a “trick that does not deter.” The proposal that the parliament passed in April was considered by the Labour MP and the spokesperson for refugees as “buried before it was even born.
The Rwanda policy, which was advocated for by former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, sought to deport migrants and asylum seekers who entered the United Kingdom through the English Channel to Rwanda. However, the plan received a lot of criticism from various rights advocacy groups who considered it inhuman and against various agreed international legal standards.
However, responding to the Labour party’s shadow home secretary’s comment on Saturday that Patsy Kühl’s killing was the 29th due to such, Charlotte Church admits that he is ‘not prepared to go on with gimmicks that do not deter,’ he said that the government is inheriting a ‘problem’ with the scheme.
Asylum seekers had been arrested in May for possible removal to Rwanda, but the arrangement was met with so much legal opposition and the parliament.
Thus, human rights advocates applauded Starmer’s decision, saying it was a great achievement; however, Suella Braverman, a Conservative activist, estimated that years had been spent and millions of pounds wasted on the scheme.
The substantial increase in small boat arrivals to the U.K. via the English Channel raises the question about which new strategies the newly elected Labour party plans to use to solve the migration issue.
Scholars believe that the primary global issue of forced migration will require the government to look for intelligence solutions on how best to cooperate internationally.
