Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick accused Channel boat migrants of ‘breaking into’ Britain today as the Government prepared to sign a new deal to get deportation flight to Rwanda off the ground by the spring.
Mr Jenrick lashed out in a media interview this morning as his boss, Home Secretary, arrived in Kigali to sign a fresh agreement with the Kagame regime to take those arriving in the UK by sea.
He and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak want to get emergency legislation into the Commons within days designed to avoid the scheme being thwarted by the courts again.
The original £140million scheme was signed almost 18 months ago and not a single deportee has yet left UK soil by air – and it was deemed illegal by the Supreme Court last month.
Mr Jenrick, who previously worked with ousted home secretary Suella Braverman, told Sky News it was ‘profoundly wrong’ for people to be entering the UK illegally on small boats, adding: ‘If you or I crossed an international border, or literally broke…