Sunak has kicked off a media round blitz with GB News. He dangled an operating Rwanda plan as an election bonus:
“If you elect me if I’m prime minister on the 5th of July those flights will go off to Rwanda and we will begin to put in place the deterrent that we need to stop the boats.”
Oliver Dowden promised that a flight would be off before the end of this Parliament – which is now tomorrow. Some cabinet ministers and some in No 10 operated for the entire year on the assumption that a flight would have to go before any election as a competence issue. Looks like the definition of “summer” is going to get stretched…
