Conservative party chair calls for return of failed Rwanda scheme

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The chair of the Conservative party has called for the failed, racist Rwanda scheme to be reinstated. Kevin Hollinrake was quoted in the press arguing it was a better option than housing asylum seekers in a Yorkshire RAF base. The Tory Rwanda scheme would have seen asylum seekers relocated to the African state. One of former PM Keir Starmer’s first moves upon taking power in 2024 was to scrap the scheme. Hollinrake said: We, in a previous government, decided where to put them, we said they should be detained and deported back to their home country, or if they couldn’t go…

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