The Prime Minister and Jonathan Gullis were buoyant about the Government’s flagship plan to cut the number of small boat crossings at Prime Minister’s Questions.
With The Sun reporting that the first deportation flight took place yesterday on the back of the Safety of Rwanda Bill being passed last week, the Prime Minister and the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North took the fight to Labour over their plans to stop the boats.
With over half of people in Gullis’ Stoke-on-Trent North constituency wanting illegal migrants to be swiftly removed according to a Telegraph poll, the MP has been a keen supporter of the plan to help stop the boats.
Gullis attacked Labour’s plans to do a deal with the EU to do a deal with Brussels to deal with the migrant crisis alongside Sir Keir Starmer’s history of defending Foreign National Offenders.
The Prime Minister made clear that a Labour advisor told veteran hack, Andrew Marr, that “we can't just come in, tear it up and have nothing to put in its place” even if the plan is operational.
In the House, Jonathan Gullis said: “Mr Speaker, we can see the Rwanda deterrent is working and we've now deported our first illegal migrant. But unsurprisingly, Labour just don't care. The shadow Home Secretary is busy posing for pics, encouraging more boats to come over. The Leader of the Labour Party said he'd cancel the Rwanda flights. He took a knee when signing letters stopping us deporting foreign national offenders who committed crimes like murder and rape. And he'd do a deal with the EU, surrendering our borders to 100,000 illegal migrants. Isn't it right, Prime Minister, that only the Conservatives will stop the boats and cut legal migration?”
Responding, the Prime Minister said: “Well, my honourable friend is absolutely right. Mr Speaker Our plan is working. Legal migration - the latest figure showed down by 24%. Student dependence down by 80%. But we all know Labour's big idea it's to scrap the Rwanda plan even when it's operational. Mr Speaker But as one senior Labour adviser said to Andrew Marr just yesterday, "we can't just come in, tear it up and have nothing to put in its place” I'm sorry to break it to them, but that's exactly their policy. While we're getting on stopping the boats, all Labour would do is stop the planes.”