The former prime minister said he dislikes ‘intensely the way society has come to regard immigration as an ill’.

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”.

Former Prime Minister Sir John Major has criticised the previous government's Rwanda asylum plan, branding it "un-Conservative and un-British". The scheme aimed to deter people crossing the Channel in small boats by sending some migrants who arrived in the UK illegally to the east African country.

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,

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