3. The Conservative Stance: Reviving the Rwanda Plan

From the Conservative side, representatives rejected Reform UK’s simplified solutions, maintaining that the asylum process is far more complex. The Conservatives reaffirmed their position: stopping the influx at the source by reviving the Rwanda Plan, which was scrapped by the Labour government. They also highlighted that they had amended laws before leaving office to ensure that those arriving illegally would not be granted asylum in the future, though they rejected the idea of retrospectively stripping rights from those who had already been legally processed.