Rishi Sunak has pledged to install a new asylum system which will have illegal migrants deported in “a matter of days or weeks”.
In a preview clip of his interview with Talk TV’s Piers Morgan, Mr Sunak also insisted that he will press ahead with the plan to send people who come in small boats across the Channel to Rwanda when the legal issues have been resolved with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The Prime Minister has come out fighting in a week where former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has boossted his own credentials for a possible comeback with a tour of the US in which he attacked Mr Sunak’s policy on Ukraine.
But Mr Sunak has acknowledged in his interview that the migrant crisis is crucial for his government’s reelection.
Mr Sunak said it was “ridiculous” that 30 percent of so-called asylum seekers had come from Albania and hailed his deal with that country’s government to send people home.
He also said his new deal with France meant that an increase in patrols had already impacted the numbers of migrants making the crossing over the Channel.
