The Rwanda plan won’t save Rishi Sunak
There is little political capital to be made from an expensive and ineffective deportation scheme.
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Freddie Hayward
Freddie Hayward is political correspondent at the New Statesman. He interviews leading political figures, appears on the New Statesman Podcast and writes the daily Morning Call newsletter, which can be subscribed to here.
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