Former Labour MP Bill Rammell and GB News host Nana Akua have clashed over Prime Minister Keir Starmer's newly announced plans to send refused asylum seekers to overseas "return hubs".

The heated exchange centred on comparisons between Starmer's proposal and the previous Conservative government's Rwanda deportation scheme, which Labour scrapped upon taking office last July.

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Starmer revealed plans to send asylum seekers who have exhausted all legal routes to remain in the UK to foreign detention centres in third countries{ai:summary}<p>Former Labour MP Bill Rammell and GB News host Nana Akua debated Prime Minister Keir Starmer's plan to establish overseas "return hubs" for refused asylum seekers. The discussion highlighted parallels between Starmer's proposal and the previous Conservative government's Rwanda deportation scheme, which Labour abandoned last year. </p><p>#illegals</p>

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