PM – no ‘firm date’ for stopping the boats – given a grilling

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PM – no ‘firm date’ for stopping the boats

Rishi Sunak said there was not a “firm date” for delivering on his pledge to stop small boats crossing the Channel.

The Prime Minister told the parliamentary Liaison Committee that the Government “made progress”, with the number of arrivals having fallen “by a third” this year.

Pressed repeatedly by Dame Diana Johnson, the Labour chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, on when he would deliver on the promise he made in January to “stop the boats”.

Mr Sunak said: “There isn’t a firm date on this because I have always been clear from the beginning…”

Told by Dame Diana he had pledged to stop the boats, Mr Sunak said: “And we will keep going until we do but this is not one of these things where there is a precise date estimate on it.

The promise one of the five priorities the Prime Minister set out at the start of 2023, when Sunak said he would pass a new law making sure those arrived by small boat would be “detained and swiftly removed”.

Although Channel crossings fallen by a third since 2022, some 29,437 people made the journey so far this year.

Responding to questions about whether airlines declined to operate the flights.  This due to fears it would harm their reputations.  Mr Sunak said: “You wouldn’t expect me to comment on commercial conversations that are necessarily private but I’m highly confident that we can operationalise the (Rwanda) Bill in all its aspects.”

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