Dan Hodges
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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Uh you know, I spoke regularly to senior people within the Rishi Sunat government and the government's proceeded.
They spent every waking hour trying to cobble together some sort of solution.
Eventually obviously they came up with the Rwanda plan.
Which
But yeah, I mean I was criticized for it at the time, which I actually defended and supported, and some iteration of the RANDA plan I think is probably
d that what it what is required.
But the reality is, again, for reasons we all know, the Rhyan the R the the Rwanda plan the the Rwanda plan didn't didn't work.
So but again, when you've got people like I say I think pretty patel was the person who sort of helped negotiate the plan.
When you've got people like that, even Sue Lebr I mean, you know, Suela Bravman's blames everyone else.
Even when you got people like Sueella Braven, who was home secretary who couldn't engineer through government, she again now goes for the oh they're all traitors sort of line.
When you've got people like that who can't find a solution.
And I I know these people and these people who f who would who were desperate to find it and who are not all bumbling idiots but are actually quite intelligent, serious, sensible people.
That says to me this is not the simple this is not an easily solved soluble problem.
And again it comes back to it, but again, as I was saying, at the moment do the British people want to hear that?
At the moment do the British people want to hear that or are they attracted to, you know
uh I don't know what's the I don't know what the latest proposal is, you know, let's send in the navy and dump them on and invade France and dump them back on the back on the beaches.
Because that was uh because the reality is if you look at it, there was an attempt at a turn back policy, but that was limited in success.
What actually worked for the Australians was taking the taking the asylum seekers and basically dumping them a desert island off the coast of off the coast of Australia.
That was what actually had the maximum deterrent effect.
So
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