Financial Times
14 April 2023
Will Suella Braverman go the same way? Well, today marks one year since the UK signed the deal to deport illegal migrants to Rwanda, and it’s pretty clear at this point that she is not going to be the home secretary who ‘‘stops the boats”. More than 1,000 people were recorded as making the crossing in the seven days to April 9. A poll carried out by the More in Common think tank found 48 per cent of people felt that the Rwanda policy would not make a difference to the number of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats (34 per cent thought it would).