Home Secretary Suella Braverman revealed today her ‘dream’ would be to have the first plane-load of failed migrants send to Rwanda by Christmas.
The senior Cabinet minister outlined her homes that the £120million scheme would overcome legal hurdles this year as she spoke at Conservative Party Conference.
She also told an audience in Birmingham that her ultimate goal was to reduce net migration to ‘tens of thousands’.
This was a goal of the David Cameron government, but one it completely failed to score.
However she said that both measures would take time to implement due to the legal hurdles they face.
Speaking to the Choppers Politics podcast the Home Secretary said: ‘In the 90s it was in the tens of thousands under Mrs Thatcher, net migration, and David Cameron famously said tens of thousands, no ifs no buts.
‘So that would be my ultimate aspiration but we’ve got to take it slowly and we’ve got to go incrementally.
‘I’m not going to commit to a number. I think we have got to…
