Stop the boats, abolish the Lords, and bring back the cane are among the policies urged by voters in the West Midlands.
He says it’s not going to deal with the problem of small boats in the English Channel.
The Chancellor has little headroom for another Budget. The Rwanda plan is a dud. A Nigel Farage return looms. How much worse can the Tory position become in the next six months?
Spoiler alert: the Rwanda policy will not stop the boats. I know this. You know this. One hopes Rishi Sunak knows this. The truth is that even if flights take off, the crossings will continue, and get worse under Labour, whether they cancel the scheme or not.
If the Rwanda scheme succeeds, it will be a personal vindication for Sunak. But it will also show that Parliament works. If not, however unfairly, it will be the Government voters blame for the failure.
The Prime Minister has confirmed the Rwanda scheme can be made operational within three months if the Rwanda bill is passed into law tonight.
The Prime Minister adds that there will be a “regular rhythm of multiple flights every month over the summer and beyond until the boats are stopped”.
New research for British Future finds a broad consensus that if you want to deem Rwanda safe, you first have to check that it is.
The Law Society believes that the Rwanda Bill remains, at best, seriously ill-advised and, at worst, an affront to British constitutional principles. However, the revisions to it go some way in reducing its negative impact on the rule of law and our balance of powers.
He refuses a bet about whether the flights will start before the General Election, but says they will help to stop the ‘trade in human misery’.
The sovereignty of Parliament, as the representative of the people, has been eroded, and power handed to an increasingly assertive bureaucracy.
Returns agreements arguably have a bigger role to play; speedier processing is also part of the answer. But to pretend that deterrence plays no part in people’s calculations is silly.
Research by the Refugee Council finds that, far from acting as a deterrent, the Rwanda plan is likely to result in people taking journeys that are even more dangerous and will drive vulnerable people underground.
However, the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s demand for a mere Commons vote on every treaty is a poor substitute for the real, much less fashionable solution.
The Conservatives need first to address a real perception problem: voters in these seats are twice as likely to say they associate the words ‘divided’ and ‘uncaring’ with the Tories than with Labour.