Rishi Sunak’s emergency legislation for Rwanda scheme is the last resort… it had better work

Last resort

THE Rwanda scheme’s rejection yesterday was a disaster for Rishi Sunak and Britain.

It has left us powerless to control our borders or eject the vast numbers of economic migrants already here illegally.

It is not that the Rwanda idea “failed”.

Its force as a deterrent was never tested.

It was smothered at birth by judges before any migrants could be flown out.

We cautiously welcome the PM’s new plan for emergency legislation to get those flights off the ground.

But we and our readers are sick of broken promises.

He bet the house on the courts nodding through his first Rwanda deal . . . and lost.

Now he vows to tighten that up and pass new laws theoretically beyond the reach of legal challenges.

Will that REALLY bear fruit by next spring, with an election looming?

Will his bold threats to ignore the ECHR or other international treaties be ­carried out?

Mr Sunak had better be serious, for his sake and the country’s.

As it stands the only people celebrating are border cheats and the hand-wringing Left who enjoy pretending small boat arrivals are all “refugees”.

The losers are the hapless public, footing accommodation bills of £8million a night and watching their public services and housing stock buckling under record immigration, legal and illegal.

Not to mention wondering how many of those sauntering unchecked into Britain are dangerous criminals.

This nettle must be grasped. The EU knows it.

It is pondering Rwanda-style schemes to control its own borders.

Labour doesn’t want it tackled. Nor do super-woke, obstructive civil servants.

Mr Sunak’s emergency button is the last resort. It had better work.

Rishi relief

THE same people who blame the Tories for inflation soaring now give them no credit for halving it. That is ridiculous.

In truth, it hit 10.7 per cent due to high energy prices and Bank of England incompetence.

It was cut by energy falling and the Bank raising interest rates.

But the sharp fall was not inevitable.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s restraint helped ensure it.

So Rishi Sunak can tick off one of his five big pledges.

The rest? Not so much.

Wrong call

ARE some MPs too dim to think through the consequences of their “ceasefire”?

It’s not just the egotistical vanity of imagining that Israel or Hamas pay their “demands” the slightest attention.

It’s that, when challenged, they couldn’t explain why they weren’t effectively voting for terrorist victory . . . for the cut-throats to have time and space to regroup, resume their racist genocide campaign and their oppression in Gaza.

More misery. More murder.