Kwasi Kwarteng Claims Sunak Chose Not Scrap Rwanda Plan Because He Didn't Want To 'Lose Face'

Former PM Rishi Sunak and former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng

Kwasi Kwarteng has claimed former PM Rishi Sunak chose not to drop the Rwanda deportation scheme over a “loss of face”.

The new government has just unveiled a new list of measures to crack down on immigration after dropping the Tories’ highly controversial plan to send asylum seekers to east Africa.

Kwarteng, who served as Liz Truss’s chancellor and who unveiled the disastrous mini-Budget, said the soaring number of immigrants...