James Cleverly humiliated as recording of aide describing ‘crap’ Rwanda policy leaks
HOME SECRETARY James Cleverly was left red-faced today after a recording of his parliamentary aide describing the Rwanda policy as “crap” was leaked to the BBC.
James Sunderland, who is standing for re-election in Bracknell, made the comments after asking if no-one was recording at a Young Conservatives’ event in April.
“The policy is crap, OK? It’s crap,” he said, but argued that the effect of the policy was what mattered. “There is no doubt at all that when those first flights take off, that it will send such a shockwave across the Channel that the gangs will stop.”
On Sky News today Mr Cleverly insisted that Mr Sunderland was “very supportive” of the plan to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to the east African country.
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