Lights, camera, and a new low: there are better ways to deal with UK migration than Deportation TV | Enver Solomon
Labour’s bold new idea is video of people being rounded up and ejected from the country. A less dehumanising approach would actually be more effective
The images are striking, deliberately so. They show men being taken off a bus and up the stairway of a charter jet to be deported from the UK. One has his hands shackled, escorted by numerous Border Force staff. The government, frustrated by its own polling, which shows voters don’t believe it has increased the number of people being removed, is now resorting to Trump-style TV footage of the deportation flight process.
It’s a show-not-tell strategy in response to Reform’s rise in the polls – and it has a whiff of panic about it. After rightly declaring the Rwanda plan a gimmick and immediately consigning it to the scrapheap of failed policies, the government is now getting lost in performative tactics that are destined to fail.
Enver Solomon is chief executive of the Refugee Council
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