RISHI SUNAK accepted a £1000 bet from Piers Morgan that deportation flights to Rwanda will be up and running before the election.
The Prime Minister was confronted by the TalkTV host, who told him: “I'll bet you £1,000 pounds to a refugee charity, you don't get anybody on those planes before the election. Will you take that bet?”
The PM shook hands with Piers to seal the deal and stressed he is “working incredibly hard to get the people on the planes”.
He also said Rwanda is part of an "overall plan" that is "working".
In the hour-long sit down for TalkTV filmed in 10 Downing Street, Piers slammed the Rwanda scheme as he argued the issue of legal migration seems “massively more problematic”.
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He said: “Do you think that should be the priority, when at the same time the ONS just predicted, we could hit 73 million people who are in this country, coming in not on boats, but coming in the normal immigration system, by 2036.
"Most people go, ‘Well that seems massively more problematic to me’.”
But the PM insisted illegal migrants will stop coming as a result of the Rwanda policy.
He said: “People talk to me a lot about illegal migration, as I'm sure they talk to you [about it]. It's important that we grip it. And Rwanda is one part of an overall plan that is working.
"And you say, you are scratching your head. Albania is an example of why it's working.
"We created a new returns agreement with Albania, it meant that if people came here illegally, we could send them back. And you know what? They stopped coming. Rwanda will do the same thing for us.”
Piers fired back: “I do not think it's going to work for you.”
Mr Sunak replied: “Okay, well, we'll have to agree to disagree."
- Watch the full interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored’s YouTube channel on Monday at 2pm and on TalkTV at 8pm on Monday
