A barrister has launched an astonishing assault on the federal government’s Rwanda deportation coverage throughout an look on BBC Query Time, calling out the “poison” inside Tory rhetoric that has characterised refugees as “scum”.
Hashi Mohamed featured on the broadcaster’s flagship politics present, which this week got here from Peterborough, when he hit out on the “unviable” immigration plan that has meant Rishi Sunak has “spent his valuable time coping with the loonies in his social gathering”.
This week, Sunak noticed off a Tory rebel to win the Commons’ backing for his flagship Security of Rwanda Invoice, after which urged the unelected Home of Lords to not block his plan.
In a press convention on Thursday, the prime minister pleaded with friends to not “frustrate the desire of the individuals” as he mentioned the UK ought to be “taking management of our borders”. Each phrases are an echo of Boris Johnson’s Brexit technique on the 2019 normal election.
On BBC Query Time, Mohamed argued the coverage is “unviable, it’s costly. And the one particular person it’s working for is the Rwandans as a result of they received’t give us a penny again”.
He went on: “They’re attacking our judges, they’re attacking our rule of regulation. They’re dividing a society. They’re making us really feel that refugees are scum and who’re international. They seek advice from the European courts that we’re part of which have United Kingdom judges as international courts.
“It’s not solely simply disgusting, it’s unconscionable. The rhetoric is poison and we have now to acknowledge that.”
He added: “This week, with every thing that’s occurring on this planet, every thing that’s occurring on this nation, This week, our prime minister spent his valuable time coping with the loonies in his social gathering.”
One-way flights deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda stay grounded amid a sequence of authorized setbacks.
The present additionally featured panellists Bim Afolami, Tory financial secretary to the Treasury, Labour’s Emily Thornberry and journalist Kate McCann.
