Deporting people to Rwanda won’t fix Britain’s immigration problem
SIR – Listening to MPS discuss the Rwanda policy, I wondered which country they were in. I recently spent 40 hours in A&E with my husband, who had a life-threatening condition. We had no idea when he would be seen. The number of people needing care was horrendous.
For years successive governments have allowed our population to grow far in excess of what our public services can cope with. The level of legal migration is scandalous – even worse than that of illegal migration.
Isn’t it about time the Government concentrated on the needs of the people who are already here? Jan Mogford
Folkestone, Kent
SIR – Which nation is it that the One Nation Tories purport to stand for? Is it France? Simon Tuck
Seer Green, Buckinghamshire not understand what merits being defined as traditionally Conservative (Commentary, January 15). Passing legislation that is not fit for purpose and betrays a pledge to the British public is not traditional Conservatism. Nor does the tradition of “trying to unite our society” have anything to do with the thousands of people who should not be here in the first place.
In 1975, Sir Keith Joseph said that the Conservatives need to occupy “the common ground”, not the “centre ground”, and this applies to stopping the boats carrying illegal migrants. Tim Janman
London W6
SIR – I wonder if the Rwanda Bill is really about purging the Conservative Party of conservatives rather than removing illegal immigrants from the UK. Paul Gaynor
Kendal, Cumbria resignations of MPS protesting at some form of policy (Letters, January 17).
As an MP represents his or her constituents, and is elected by them, I wonder how many have resigned in accordance with their opinions.
MPS ought to consult constituents before taking such decisions. Stephen Dennis
London N14
SIR – The debate about the legality of the Prime Minister’s Rwanda plan should not be allowed to obscure one important question: why have we failed so abysmally to stop the boats altogether?
We are, after all, the nation that saw off the Spanish Armada in 1588 and were later able to keep the forces of Napoleon and Hitler on the other side of the Channel. High-speed launches, drones and special forces did not exist in the time of Drake or Nelson, yet they did a far more effective job. John Petley
Heathfield, East Sussex