Tackling small boats will be the pledge Mr Sunak is judged on when the general election comes - but can he really deliver?
The prime minister wouldn't put a number on how many asylum seekers he intended to send to Rwanda to have their claims processed. But Rishi Sunak's news conference on Monday left no doubt this is the policy on which he is staking his premiership. He didn't talk today about the odd flight getting off the ground. Instead, he talked about a regular rhythm of flights beginning in July, deporting perhaps thousands of migrants.
'He's all over it and determined to deliver the policy'. To that end, commercial flights have been organised, an airfield put on standby and 500 officials trained to escort migrants to Rwanda. Around 2,200 detention spaces have been reserved for those the government plans to remove and 25 courtrooms reserved to deal with legal challenges to get the flights away in 10 to 12 weeks.
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