we ve got our own show to make, so let s get on with this episode of newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s james here in the studio in westminster. and it s chris in westminster, too. here we are, and one story that s dominated this week, chris, hasn t it, which has been this post office scandal? but there s one story going to dominate next week, i think, quite likely, in so much as we can forecast. what s that? it is rwanda. so it s the return of the conversation about how you deal with illegal migration. and the government is keen to have this idea of sending folk to rwanda. as newscasters will be aware, it s been getting relatively long in the tooth as an idea, but it hasn t yet happened for a million and one legal reasons. there are also very transparent differences of opinion within the conservative party about how you do it, how you make it work, can you make it work, and what s the best way of making it work? there was a bit of a to do before christmas
because they re not necessarily the people living next door to the asylum hotel. they re not the people whose children can t get on the social housing list because those homes are being taken by new arrivals. they re not the people i visited who lived near the cliffs in dover, who ve had migrants who ve just come across on boats come to their homes and make their lives difficult. leftie middle class liberals who sort of don t get it and might be instinctively sort of too soft? well, i think you do have to accept that the only countries that have fixed this problem, and some countries have, have taken very robust action. so if you want to fix this, like australia did, like greece has done more recently, you have to accept that you ve got to do some very tough things. and i do think that it s worth doing those things in our own way. we ll make our own choices as a country, but it matters notjust because this is a passing issue, but it s something that s going