Sunak Says He Can ‘Stop the Boats’ After Record 5,400 Arrivals

The prime minister is still confident he can “stop the boats” despite the UK seeing more than 5,000 illegal immigrants arrive on Britain’s shores in the first three months of this year. A Downing Street spokeswoman said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak believes he can secure the border, continuing that “as we have said before the Easter recess, the most important thing that we can do to fundamentally break the model of the criminal gangs is to get our Rwanda partnership up and running.” “So, we want to see that happen and get flights off the ground, and we know the impact that a successful deterrent can have, but at the same time we also continue to work with partners to build on the progress that we saw last year with reduction by a third on the previous year,” she said....