Immigration Under Labour: Scrapping the Rwanda Plan and Sticking With the ECHR

A Labour government would scrap the Rwanda plan, introduce a Border Security Command to tackle people smuggling, and ensure the UK would “unequivocally” remain part of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). These are the pledges that Sir Keir Starmer has made ahead of the July 4 General Election, where immigration has become a policy focus for most parties in the race. The Conservatives have overseen record-high legal immigration and more than 125,000 people illegally cross the English Channel in the past six years. As a consequence, the government introduced laws, policies, and international deals to attempt to take back control of Britain’s borders. The party maintains that their systems will work....