The subsequent visitor on tonight’s version of Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge is the SNP’s Westminster chief, Stephen Flynn.
We begin by asking for his response to the home secretary signing a brand new treaty with Rwanda at the moment.
“I despair, if I’m sincere,” he says. “The authorities’s spoken about Rwanda now for 18 months or so – it isn’t yielded any tangible advantages for anybody.”
He says round £140m or so has been spent on the scheme to this point, with most likely extra to be spent.
Mr Flynn provides: “There’s a straightforward answer – you create secure and authorized routes, and also you put money into extra workers to clear the backlog.”
But he accuses the federal government of desirous to “create a tradition conflict”, including: “It’s all only a bit despicable and I’m frankly fed up with it.”
Sophy places it to him that the federal government would argue it’s making an attempt to cease folks making harmful journeys to the UK, tow hich Mr Flynn repeats that the answer is to create secure and authorized routes.
“This plan was botched up by Boris Johnson to attempt to distract from all the issues that exist.
“It’s not solved something, it isn’t going to repair the issue – if certainly folks understand there to be an issue.”
Mr Flynn additionally says Scotland “completely” wants extra migration as a result of it’s “economically useful”.
He requires an “evidence-based method” to take a look at the wants of the financial system and the nation, however he declines to say what the correct degree can be.
