The PM said he and the public were losing patience with a “merry go round” of legal obstacles to the plan.
Mr Sunak pledged emergency laws would “finish the job” and end the small boats crisis. In a direct challenge to Sir Keir Starmer and opponents in the Lords, the Prime Minister said the Government will sign a treaty with Rwanda and declare it to be safe for deported migrants.
The Labour Party and some peers have signalled they will attempt to ground flights to the east African nation’s capital Kigali.
Mr Sunak declared yesterday: “People just want the problem fixed. That’s what I’m here to do and this year we’ve already got the numbers down by a third.
“We’re getting [migrants] out of hotels, saving taxpayers money. People can see that I want to get this thing done but in order to finish the job we need to get Rwanda up and running.
“We can pass these laws in Parliament that will give us the powers and the tools we need. Then we can get the flights off and whether it’s the House of Lords or the Labour Party standing in our way, I will take them on because I want to get this thing done and I want to stop the boats.”
Supreme Court judges ruled this week Mr Sunak’s flagship scheme was unlawful and migrants sent to Rwanda risked being returned to their home countries. He dismissed criticism from the sacked Home Secretary Suella Braverman that he was merely “tinkering” with his original scheme rather than proposing a workable alternative.
The Premier, who yesterday visited Bolsover School in Derbyshire, insisted to broadcasters that his revised strategy “meets all the concerns that people have raised”.
He went on: “The progress we’ve made this year on tackling this issue is meaningful. We’ve got to get the Rwanda plan up and running. I will do whatever it takes to make that happen. People are sick of this merry go round.
“I want to end it. My patience is wearing thin like everyone else’s.”
Mrs Braverman said stopping migrants crossing to the UK “demands of the Government an end to self-deception and spin”, adding: “Tinkering with a failed plan will not stop the boats.”
She wants to block “all avenues of legal challenge” to the flights by excluding them from all European and human rights laws.
Downing Street sources yesterday refused to rule out that MPs may be made to debate the emergency laws over the festive break.
Mr Sunak said: “It doesn’t have to take a long time to get legislation through – and that is a question for the Labour Party. We’re determined to get this through as quickly as possible.
“Is the Labour Party going to stand in the way and stop this from happening, or are they going to work with us and support this Bill?
“The British people want this problem gripped. I know the British people will want this new law to pass so we can get flights off to Rwanda. So really, the question is for Keir Starmer and the Labour Party, ‘Why don’t they?’”
A spokeswoman for Mr Sunak said yesterday: “I think we are prepared to do whatever is necessary to ensure that we can get this in place and get flights off the ground.
“I wouldn’t speculate on parliamentary process but I cannot impress (enough) the importance that the Prime Minister places on this necessary legislation to deliver for the public on the important priority of stopping the boats.” Mr Sunak is attempting to manage his increasingly fractious Tory party.
Former Chief Secretary to the Treasury Sir Simon Clarke MP said: “The PM has said – absolutely correctly – that the British Government will address illegal immigration. If the mainstream, moderate centre-Right proves itself unable or unwilling to do so, be in no doubt that we will lose out to much more hardline – and actually extreme – voices.
“Brexit was a litmus test of whether our major parties would actually do what the British public think is right. This is a test of exactly the same principle.
“All over the west, from France to Germany to the US, if the mainstream Right fails, people will turn to other forces.”
Ex-First Minister of State Damian Green defended the PM against Mrs Braverman’s attack. He said on BBC Radio 4’s Today: “It’s not just all our own laws passed by Parliament and all international treaties that we have signed that Suella wants to sweep away.
“Conservatives believe in a democratic country run by the rule of law. And dictators, Xi and Putin, would prefer to have the state completely untrammelled by any law. And so, as a democrat I oppose it.”
“If we Conservatives don’t believe that the state should be controlled by the law, that the Government has to obey the law as much as you or I have to obey the law, then that seems to me to be very profoundly unconservative.”
