Sunak's sweeping immigration plan includes cap on refugees and floating detention centers for asylum seekers

Rishi Sunak has sparked outrage by devising a radical plan to handle immigration if he becomes prime minister. The package includes a cap on the annual number of refugees and the suspension of aid from some of the world's poorest countries if they refuse to take back failed asylum seekers.

The former Chancellor, who trails Liz Truss in polls by Conservative Party members in the current leadership election, has said he will step up the controversial plan to operate deportation flights to Rwanda and seek to establish similar schemes with other countries.

And he said he would ban anyone arriving by small boat across the Channel from staying in the UK - despite the fact that the majority of arrivals unauthorized persons are currently being granted asylum status.

Meanwhile Ms Truss also doubled down on her support for the controversial plan, calling it a 'good' policy and indicating she could further expand the program.

"I am determined to see it through to completion. e full implementation, as well as to explore other countries with which we can work on similar partnerships. It's the right thing to do," she told the Mail on Sunday.

"I'm also committed to making sure we have the right level of forces at our border. I will augment the border force to make sure we have the proper protection in place right at the border. Sam Nadel said: "It rather shows that the heat of the campaign leads to bad politics. If the former Chancellor wins this race, he will be more than a party leader, he will be Prime Minister and a world leader.

"To meet a world in desperate crisis - in the face of climate change, famine and conflict - with cruel policies like these would not be up to the job. We need more help and safe and legal routes to the UK. »

Mr. Sunak, who admits he is the underdog in the race to succeed Boris Johnson, said on Saturday illegal immigration was one of five national emergencies that would require him to put the UK on a "foot of crisis" as soon as he took office.

His "10-point plan to stop illegal immigration" is significantly more radical than the measures contained in the Nationality and Borders Act which was enacted by Priti Patel earlier this year.

This will put him on track for a clash with the European Court of Human Rights over narrowing the definition of who is eligible for asylum in the UK, as well as giving authorities additional powers to mark, contain and monitor arrivals.

And that will put it on a collision course with aid charities by explicitly linking humanitarian aid to immigration cooperation - something that Ch ristian Aid described as "beyond pallor".

States that fail to recover nationals who have committed offenses or been denied the right to remain in the UK - such as the 'Eritrea, Iraq and Sudan are currently supposed to do so - would be denied access to British aid and would be subject to trade retaliation and visa measures.

Mr. Sunak - whose own grandparents came to the UK from India as legal migrants - would introduce a cap, set each year by Parliament, on the number of refugees to be accepted through "safe and legal channels ", while ensuring that others are kicked out of the country.

Effectively barring the ability to stay in Britain for those entering the country through unauthorized channels, his plan states: “The only route to asylum in the UK will be a safe and legal route.”

A small boat run by the military task force, backed by investments in surveillance technology, would be given the resources and authority to "stop small boat landings on beaches" and oversee the detention and removal of those crossing the English Channel in dinghies.

Adapted cruise ships would be used as floating detention camps for migrant reps utes to have arrived in the UK illegally, in a bid to limit the cost of £5million a day to house them in hotels.

Mr. Sunak is reportedly calling for an urgent meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron with the aim of "holding the French to account", with clear objectives on stopping the boats and "no options on the table".

He promised to do "whatever it takes" to implement and scale up the deal with Rwanda, under which the African country is paid to accept asylum seekers without their claims ever being considered in the Kingdom -United. And he said he would pursue similar arrangements with other states.

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