Susanna Reid was forced to tell off an MP for swearing live on Good Morning Britain.
GMB host Susanna had to interrupt Labour MP Yvette Cooper, the Shadow Home Secretary, on Tuesday (April 23) during a heated discussing about the government’s Rwanda bill. It comes after Rishi Sunak’s Tory government was finally able to pass their controversial bill through parliament and make it a law.
The controversial bill, which was trashed by opposition parties, will send asylum seekers to Rwanda on several flights. The policy aims to stop illegal migration and anybody “entering the UK illegally” could be sent to the small landlocked country in central Africa.
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Yvette Cooper slammed the policy as a “costly gimmick” during her appearance on GMB, hosted by Susanna and Richard Madeley. But she was told off for using an expletive when claiming the Home Secretary had described the bill as “bat***t”.
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“The problem is that nobody thinks it’s going to work. The Home Secretary himself has described this as bat***t”…”
But Susanna immediately picked up on the bad language and told the MP: “Sorry, we can’t use that word on breakfast television.” Cooper covered her mouth and apologised for the using the word.
Last night, Ms Cooper ripped into the bill on X, formerly Twitter. She wrote: “Rishi Sunak ’s Rwanda scheme is costing over £500m to send just 300 people – less than 1% of asylum seekers, with no plan for the 99%. Tory policy is just an extortionate election gimmick instead of a serious plan.
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“Labour’s plan will boost our border security instead. Neither the Home Secretary nor the former Home Secretary think Rwanda scheme will work. The former Immigration Minister says this is just about ‘symbolic flights before an election.’ Even the PM tried to cancel it when he was Chancellor.”
“This is the 3rd Tory law on Channel crossings in 2 yrs. 1st partially repealed, 2nd never fully implemented. Both laws made chaos worse. Ministers chose to delay this bill as they want someone else to blame Tory MPs still voting to include Afghan interpreters in scheme.”
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The PM said the passing of the Rwanda bill was “not just a step forward but a fundamental change in the global equation on migration”. He said: “We introduced the Rwanda bill to deter vulnerable migrants from making perilous crossings and break the business model of the criminal gangs who exploit them.
“The passing of this legislation will allow us to do that and make it very clear that if you come here illegally, you will not be able to stay. Our focus is to now get flights off the ground, and I am clear that nothing will stand in our way of doing that and saving lives.”
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