Rwanda scheme is un-Conservative and un-British
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'John Major condemned the Rwanda scheme as 'un-British' but there is nothing un-British about deterrence' - Ann Widdecombe
John Major has now joined the queue of people rubbishing the Rwanda scheme, which he has condemned as “un-British”. I continue to cleave to my view that future historians will judge his premiership very differently from current commentators and that he has been badly underestimated as a Prime Minister.
Rwanda plan was un-British, says ex-PM John Major
The former Tory leader criticises the previous government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Former PM Sir John Major criticises Tories’ ‘un-British’ Rwanda policy
The former prime minister said he dislikes ‘intensely the way society has come to regard immigration as an ill’.
Opinion
Amol Rajan Interviews: John Major, review: the former prime minister is given space to let rip
John Major is not a man who riles easily. But a mention of the B-word put some colour in the cheeks of the famously grey man from Spitting Image, who’d previously been chatting quite congenially with interviewer Amol Rajan,
Tory Rwanda plan was worse than transporting convicts to Australia, says John Major
Migrants Scheme Proposed by Boris Johnson was ‘unConservative and unBritish’ says former PM. ‘At least felons sent to Australia in 1800s had a trial,’ he adds. Major also attacks ‘reckless’ Tories who want party to merge with Reform UK and says Nigel Farage should be banned from joining the Conservatives.
Ex-Prime Minister John Major blasts Tories' Rwanda plan
Sir John Major said he dislikes 'intensely the way society has come to regard immigration as an ill' and warned that a Tory merger with Reform UK would be 'fatal'.
The Britain that John Major once ruled is dead
With a Labour landslide victory in July’s general election, John Major’s recent attacks on Conservative Eurosceptics, and Oasis set to return to the stage in 2025, you could be forgiven for thinking that Britain had been transported back to the 1990s.
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Why should we listen to John Major?
Sir John Major has been sounding off. Again. The former Tory prime minister criticised his party’s Rwanda asylum plan as ...
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Sir John Major and Bill Clinton bonded over burdens of office, letters show
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Sir Keir Starmer helped Labour deliver a stunning victory at the general election - which should have meant he'd have an easy ...