Tory leadership candidate says current system too soft but rival Truss camp says plan is unworkable
Rishi Sunak has unveiled another new policy in the battle between thecandidates to be tougher on immigration, promising that as prime minister he would double the number of overseas offenders who are deported each year.
Under what was billed as a “radical new approach to cutting crime”, Sunak said deportation orders would be considered if people had been jailed for at least six months continuously, rather than 12 as is currently the case. The proposals are the latest in a series of policy ideas on immigration and asylum from Sunak and Truss, who have beenTruss, the foreign secretary, has pledged to expand the controversial policy begun by Boris Johnson under which even legitimate asylum seekers can be deported permanently to Rwanda, and has said she would seek similar deals with other countries.
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