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Ending offshore deportations removed one of the most restrictive elements of UK asylum policy.
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Keir Starmer scraps the UK Rwanda deportation scheme
Shortly after Labour's July 2024 general-election victory, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that the previous government's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was 'dead and buried', stating it had never functioned as a deterrent. No asylum seeker had been removed under the scheme despite reported spending of around 220 million pounds. The government said savings would be redirected to a new Border Security Command focused on disrupting people-smuggling gangs behind small-boat Channel crossings.
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Shortly after Labour's July 2024 general-election victory, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that the previous government's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was 'dead and buried', stating it had never functioned as a deterrent. No asylum seeker had been removed under the scheme despite reported spending of around 220 million pounds. The government said savings would be redirected to a new Border Security Command focused on disrupting people-smuggling gangs behind small-boat Channel crossings.
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