British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak vows to tackle the rise of asylum seekers in the UK and plans to spend up to £6 billion to stop migrants coming in on small boats. UKPolitics
reports that the Prime Minister is facing increasing pressure as asylum seekers across the country are being told to share hotel rooms to save taxpayers £250 million. Sunak is willing to spend the above mentioned amount as the Home Office says that detaining and deporting people will cost between £3 and £6 billion over the next two years.Sunak pledged to stop the boats as one of his five commitments before next year’s General Election.
On June 5 he said in a press conference in Dover he said, “Our plan is working. But we are not complacent.”While some people attributed the lessening of the number of boats to simply bad weather which incidentally coincided with Sunak’s visit to Dover. According to a Bloomberg report when the PM when questioned about this he said, “There’s many things I can control, the weather is not one of the them.
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