Labour pledges to speed up deportations of failed asylum seekers as the party ... trends now
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Labour last night promised a new drive to deport failed asylum seekers as it tried to flesh out an alternative to the Government's Rwanda scheme.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper set out proposals to create a new 'returns and enforcement unit' to swiftly remove failed asylum seekers and foreign national offenders.
The new unit, which will have funding to employ 1,000 staff, will focus on speeding up removals to countries deemed safe.
But a Tory source said the plan was an attempt by Labour to 'deflect attention' from the party's opposition to the Rwanda scheme, designed to deport Channel migrants to the east African country within days of their arrival in the UK, which returns to the
