UK public backs Labour’s deportations plan

deportation Immigration Labour Party Rwanda Yvette Cooper

Yvette Cooper may be catching flak in the press for her plans to deport more illegal migrants, but the new Home Secretary’s proposed measures are clearly popular with the wider public. New polling from YouGov reveals that 67% of Britons support an increase in deportations, including 58% of Labour voters. The corresponding figures for Tory and Reform UK voters are an overwhelming 92% and 96% respectively, and even a clear majority of Lib Dems — 55% — would get behind the crackdown.

Cooper previously referred to the Conservatives’ Rwanda plan as “damaging” and “unethical”, yet her own reinvention as Theresa May with a red rosette seems to have gone down well with the electorate. Rwanda 2.0?

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UK public backs Labour’s deportations plan

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