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Rishi Sunak has criticised Sir Keir Starmer’s position on Rwanda as “rank hypocrisy”.

Speaking to broadcasters, the prime minister says the Labour leader has announced things the government is “already doing”.

He gives the example of “punching through the backlog, having more law enforcement officers do more, that’s all happening already”.

“We’ve announced all of that more than a year ago,” the prime minister adds.

“The question for Keir Starmer if he cares so much about that, why did he vote against the new laws that we passed to give our law enforcement officers new powers? 

“They’ve now used those to arrest almost 8,000 people connected with illegal migration, sentenced them to hundreds of years in prison.

“And if it was up to him, all those people would be out on our streets, so I think it’s rank hypocrisy property of his position.”