Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has sparked a fiery row on GB News, after she criticised the Government’s latest treaty with Rwanda.
The plan, which will attempt to bypass the Supreme Court’s ruling and name the country as “safe”, was criticised by Braverman in the Commons on Wednesday.
Braverman warned that the Conservative Party faces “electoral oblivion” if the new Rwanda treaty fails.
She asked MPs in the Commons: “Do we fight for sovereignty or let our party die?”
Scarlett MccGwire said all Suella Braverman did was ‘whinge’
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Reacting to the treaty, commentator Scarlett MccGwire told GB News that the plan was “totally performative”, and if it was to work, the policy would “achieve absolutely nothing”.
Broadcaster Carole Malone said the plan was “well thought out” by the Prime Minister, but stated he is “not a leader”.
Debating the migration policy on GB News, Malone asked: “Think if someone like Thatcher was in power. Would she be mucking about like this? She’d say get out the ECHR, we’re not going to listen to what they say.
“He’s [Rishi Sunak] trying to appease everyone and he’s appeasing no one.”
MccGwire fumed in response: “What did Suella achieve during her year? She did not do the most obvious thing which is to begin processing.
“One of the reasons we spend £8million a day on hotels is because we are not processing asylum seekers, right? If we processed asylum seekers we could be sending some of them back and the others could actually work. We would not have them in hotels.”
Malone hit back: “You say we should be processing, but you realise every process is delayed or held up by the human rights organisations, all of them.”
MccGwire swiped: “This is a myth! What did Suella do? She did nothing about processing, she did absolutely nothing.
“All she did was whinge and lose the Conservatives the election.”
Suella Braverman said the Conservative Party faces “electoral oblivion” if the new Rwanda treaty fails
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“In 2010, even 2015, it was a matter of weeks and possibly a couple of months for somebody to be processed, right. It’s not anymore.”
Host Andrew Pierce then claimed: “The Home Office are deliberately sabotaging it. We’ve seen that in the emails when when Priti Patel was there, they virtually declared warfare on the Rwanda plan because they don’t agree with it.
“They think it’s racist. It’s not their job to take that view.”
MccGwire agreed, stating: “If people know they’re going to be sent back, they don’t come. That’s the way to stop illegal immigration.”
