Actors, TV personalities and campaigners call for scrapping of Rwanda scheme
Succession star Brian Cox and television presenter Gary Lineker are among high-profile signatories to a letter calling for the Government to scrap its Rwanda scheme and for political leaders to come up with a “fair new plan for refugees”.
They branded Britain’s refugee system “ever-more uncaring, chaotic and costly”, and said asylum policies are not working.
The correspondence, also signed by women’s rights campaigner Helen Pankhurst, and television chef Big Zuu, who is the son of a refugee from Sierra Leone, comes in the week will debate and vote on the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill.
