Rwanda plan is brutal, says ex-Tory home secretary

Plans to nonstop immoderate asylum seekers to Rwanda are "brutal" and "impractical", an ex-Tory location caput has warned.

Amber Rudd told GB News it was "extraordinary" the existent location caput had said it was her "dream" to spot a level instrumentality disconnected for Rwanda.

She suggested ministers should alternatively absorption connected improving relations with France to tackle Channel crossings.

She discontinue the parliamentary Conservative Party successful September 2019 successful protestation astatine Boris Johnson's handling of Brexit.

The Rwanda asylum program was established successful April to instrumentality immoderate asylum seekers who transverse the Channel to the UK, connected a one-way summons to the eastbound African state to assertion asylum determination instead.

Under the scheme, which aims to discourage radical from utilizing unsafe routes, migrants "deliberately entering the UK illegally from a harmless state should beryllium swiftly returned to their location state oregon relocated to Rwanda".

Ms Rudd told GB News she did not "believe" successful the scheme.

"For [a] commencement I deliberation it is simply a brutal policy, which we should not person introduced anyway," she said.

"But it is also, putting that aside, impractical. I conscionable don't judge it volition ever happen."

She said the "growing numbers of radical putting their lives successful danger" to get to the UK was "a shared occupation with the French".

"I anticipation that this caller authorities is going to code it by having a amended narration with the French. I mean, let's look it, it tin lone improve," she added.

At the Conservative Party league successful October, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said it was her "dream" and "obsession" to spot a formation of migrants depart for Rwanda by Christmas.

Ms Braverman resigned from her relation successful the last days of Liz Truss's premiership implicit information breaches, but she was reappointed conscionable six days aboriginal by Rishi Sunak.

Opposition parties and immoderate Tory MPs have raised concerns astir her reappointment, aft she admitted sending an authoritative papers from her idiosyncratic email to idiosyncratic not authorised to person it.

Ms Rudd said she was "surprised" to spot Ms Braverman instrumentality to her role, but it was close to "give her a accidental and spot however it goes".