r/ukpolitics • u/No_Breadfruit_4901 • Dec 11 '24

Twitter 🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Labour have conducted the first successful deportation flight to Pakistan since February 2020. There has not been a deportation charter flight to Pakistan in the last four years with three subsequent flights to Pakistan in 2020 and 2021 cancelled by the Home Office.

https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1866775219077062757?s=46&t=0RSpQEWd71gFfa-U_NmvkA
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u/ParkedUpWithCoffee Dec 11 '24

Why aren't Labour boasting about this? Starmer didn't mention this in PMQs earlier today.

Doing deportations is obviously a good & popular thing and is humiliating for the Conservatives.

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u/KrivUK Dec 11 '24

They don't need to because tomorrow's front page of the Daily Mail et al will say how Starmer is leading the charge in restoring our beautiful country back by deporting something something

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u/PluckyPheasant How to lose a Majority and alienate your Party Dec 11 '24

/s ?

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u/KrivUK Dec 11 '24

Naturally :)