The former Tory leader criticises the previous government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Sir John Major has criticised the previous government’s Rwanda scheme, calling it “un-Conservative and un-British”. The former prime minister said he disliked “intensely the way society has come to regard immigration as an ill” and warned that a Tory merger with Reform UK would be “fatal”.

Migrants Scheme Proposed by Boris Johnson was ‘unConservative and unBritish’ says former PM. ‘At least felons sent to Australia in 1800s had a trial,’ he adds. Major also attacks ‘reckless’ Tories who want party to merge with Reform UK and says Nigel Farage should be banned from joining the Conservatives.

Sir John Major described the expensive Rwanda project as 'odious', 'un-British' and 'un-Christian' as James Cleverly and Robert Jenrick campaign to bring it back

With a Labour landslide victory in July’s general election, John Major’s recent attacks on Conservative Eurosceptics, and Oasis set to return to the stage in 2025, you could be forgiven for thinking that Britain had been transported back to the 1990s.

A former Tory prime minister has launched an outspoken attack on his party’s policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda. Sir John Major said the scheme was “un-Conservative, un-British, if one dare say in a secular society,