Shadow Immigration Minister Stephen Kinnock has described the prime minister's behaviour during the Rwanda Bill press conference as "bizarre", adding the legislation will never act as a deterrent by those desperate enough to make the journey to the UK in small boats. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 The Prime Minister's performance at the press conference today was bizarre.
00:03 Very difficult to see what the point of that press conference really was.
00:06 He is a weak Prime Minister leading a deeply divided party.
00:10 We've seen a shambolic warring factions in the Conservative Party
00:15 over the last two days on the Rwanda bill.
00:18 What is clear that is if you can only send 1% of the people
00:22 coming across the Channel on small boats to Rwanda,
00:24 that is never going to be a deterrent.
00:27 You're dealing with people who have risked life and limb,
00:30 who are escaping violence and persecution.
00:32 They're going to take a 1% risk of possibly being sent to Rwanda.
00:36 So Rwanda will never work as a deterrent.
00:38 What the government should be doing is putting its energy and focus
00:42 and resources into the things that actually work,
00:45 rather than spending vast amounts of time and political capital
00:51 on a scheme like Rwanda, which is unaffordable,
00:55 unworkable and of course unlawful as well as found by the Supreme Court.