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Local election results live: Suella Braverman says Rishi Sunak needs to own this and change course - BBC News Local election results live: Suella Braverman says Rishi Sunak needs to own this and change course - BBC News
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Laura Kuenssberg
Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg If you missed Sunday with Laura
The Rwandan government won't guarantee how many people it can take from the UK if flights start to depart. Kuenssberg, here’s a quick roundup of what the guests said this morning:
Rishi Sunak has promised that migrants arriving in the UK without permission will be sent to Rwanda rather than allowed to claim asylum in the UK. Former home secretary Suella
Around 40,000 have come to the UK since the law was changed in 2023 and are in line for deportation. Braverman has said the “terrible” local elections results make a Labour government
Rwanda has signed a five-year deal with the UK, with costs estimated to be at least £300 million already. at the next general election likely, which fills her with “horror”
Speaking on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Rwanda's government spokesperson Yolande Maloko said: "I cannot tell you is how many thousands we're taking in the first year or in the second year." Braverman
When asked if Rwanda could accommodate all of the people in the current backlog, Maloko said it would "depend on very many factors that are being worked out now". says she regrets backing Rishi Sunak but the party should not change leader now, and that the PM needs to “own” the results and fix it
Pressed to give a commitment on the number, Ms Makolo said "we are ready". Mark Harper,
But, she would not give an assurance it would be able to take the 40,000 people the UK would like to send, merely saying it would be "thousands". the transport secretary, predicts the local election results point to a hung
You can read Laura Kuenssberg's full article here. parliament at the general election
Harper adds that the Tories have a plan to
reach disillusioned voters, citing Ben Houchen's mayoral win in Tees Valley as an
example of the party successfully gaining back support
Pat
McFadden, Labour’s national campaign co-ordinator, says his party’s defence of Israel, following the 7 October attack, may have cost it some support
We also heard from Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande
Makolo who says her government cannot guarantee how many asylum
seekers it can take, but it "expects to
relocate thousands"
You can watch the entire programme on BBC iPlayer here.
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