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.

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”.

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

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.

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.

Sir John Major said he dislikes 'intensely the way society has come to regard immigration as an ill' and warned that a Tory merger with Reform UK would be 'fatal'.