‘Tinkering with a failed plan won’t stop the boats’: Suella Braverman calls on Sunak to ‘end spin’ over Rwanda and says Parliament must amend Illegal Migration Act to deliver flights next spring

• She said to deliver Rwanda deal Government has to ‘end self-deception and spin’

Suella Braverman has called on Rishi Sunak to ‘end spin’ over Rwanda and said Parliament must amend the Illegal Migration Act to deliver flights next spring. 

To deliver the Rwanda partnership, ‘it demands of the Government an end to self-deception and spin’, Braverman wrote in an article for the Telegraph.

She added that ‘tinkering with a failed plan’ would not stop the boats.

Braverman said Sunak’s Plan B will not work before the election comes around, because it is simply a ‘tweaked version of the failed Plan A’ that would have to go through a lengthy process via the courts again.

Instead, the situation requires an amendment to the Illegal Migration Act, according to the former Home Secretary.

To deliver the Rwanda partnership, ‘it demands of the Government an end to self-deception and spin’, Braverman (pictured) wrote in an article for the Telegraph

She said Sunak’s (pictured) Plan B will not work before the election comes around, because it is simply a ‘tweaked version of the failed Plan A’ that would have to go through a lengthy process via the courts again

She outlined a five-step plan that she thinks will see migrant flights to Rwanda set off soon:

• Address safety concerns for migrants brought to Rwanda by taking steps to improve the country’s asylum system to verify its safety for removals
• New plan should exclude ‘all avenues of legal challenge’ so flights can set off before next election without facing lengthy court battles. This would exclude them from the ‘entirety’ of domestic and European human rights laws
• There should be a time limit for migrants arriving in the UK illegally so they can be ‘removed’ to Rwanda as quickly as possible in a ‘streamlined’ process
• Illegal migrants should be detained until they are flown to Rwanda and all legal challenges to this detention should be excluded to not ‘burden’ the courts
• Amended act should be introduced within the next month before Christmas so members can be recalled to debate it over the holiday recess period (December 19 to January 8)

She added that after Sunak took the first step by saying he would introduce emergency legislation, he would have to follow up by urging MPs and peers to make a decision.

They would have to decide between ‘properly’ controlling illegal immigration via boat arrivals and telling the British public they would have to accept the increasing numbers of illegal migrants due to the overpowering international law.

This comes after ministers have admitted that the Tories will lose the next election unless Sunak can get the Rwanda flights going by Spring.

Braverman said that ‘tinkering with a failed plan’ would not stop the boats

They would have to decide between ‘properly’ controlling illegal immigration via boat arrivals and telling the British public they would have to accept the increasing numbers of illegal migrants due to the overpowering international law (file image)

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick warned there is no ‘path to victory’ for the Tories if the PM cannot show voters he has kept his vow to ‘Stop the Boats’

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick warned there is no ‘path to victory’ if the PM cannot show voters he has kept his vow to ‘Stop the Boats’.

The stark message came as Conservatives digested the consequences of the Supreme Court ruling that the policy is illegal – and more Channel migrants arrived on the south coast.

A grim poll yesterday underlined the problems for Mr Sunak, showing Labour 27 points ahead.

READ MORE: Moment dinghy filled with migrants almost disappears beneath the waves before being escorted into British waters by French boats – as Tories warn Rishi he ‘can’t afford to fail’ in his bid to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Sunak, visibly angry, staged a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday evening to lay out his ‘Plan B’ following the ruling.

A new Treaty will be drawn up to assuage concerns asylum seekers deported to Rwanda could be sent back to danger in their country of origin, and emergency legislation will be passed declaring Rwanda ‘safe’.

The premier warned that once those things had been achieved he would not tolerate blocking by ‘foreign courts’, insisting leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is on the table.

However, in a round of interviews yesterday morning Home Secretary James Cleverly acknowledged that Mr Sunak’s ambition of getting flights going by Spring is dependent on ‘circumstances’. 

There are fears of legal challenges and delaying tactics by peers.

Meanwhile senior Tories have urged their colleagues to stop talking about leadership challenges and get behind Sunak. 

Sources on the Tory Right indicated that Mrs Braverman and her supporters plan to step up their attacks on the Government as she tries to build backing as a precursor for a leadership bid.

Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson yesterday said talk of a leadership contest was ‘absolute nonsense’.

Under party rules, 53 Tory MPs must call for a contest.

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