laura kuenssberg that his job as chancellor was to ask probing questions of every proposal that crossed his desk. he made the comments in a wideranging interview in which he also talked about the government looking at legal options in the case of the post office horizon it scandal and tackling illegal migration. let s talk about immigration. it s one of your top priorities. we also know from documents the bbc saw this week that when you were chancellor you expressed doubts about number 10 s desire to send migrants to rwanda. do you admit you had reservations? no, and i haven t seen the documents so i can t comment on them specifically. but i discussed it with the prime minister and ultimately funded the plans and the scheme and myjob now as prime minister is to get it up and running. i believe it s really important because it is about deterrence. the national crime agency has said you need a deterrent to solve the problem and i believe that. that s why i got a new deal with
Good evening. Just some of the faces of the victims of 50 years of the infected blood scandal. The wholly damning conclusion of todays inquiry into that scandal describes years of deception and cover up in which doctors, the Blood Services and successive governments did not put Patient Safety first. It found that the biggest Treatment Disaster in the history of the nhs could and should have been avoided. Over the two decades the 19705 to the 19905 more than 30,000 people were infected with diseases like hiv and hepatitis c. 3,000 have died already, many are living with ongoing side effects. The Prime Minister described today as a day of shame for the British State and will announce plans for compensation for the victims of the scandal tomorrow. 0ur Health Editor hugh pym reports. On day one of the inquiry, perry, supported by family, gave evidence. There is a huge impact on family, because they carry you and. He didnt survive long enough to see todays report. He was infected with hiv a
Celebrate victory on derby day, but theres no shaking off the holders Manchester City, who remain hot on their heels. Good morning. Some heavy rain in Northern Ireland this morning. That will push north and east during the course of the day. It is the south east that will hang on to the driest and silliest conditions for longest. All of the details later on in the programme. Driest and sunniest. Its monday, the 29th of april. The Irish Government says it will pass Emergency Legislation to return rising numbers of Asylum Seekers arriving from Northern Ireland, because theyre fearful of being sent to rwanda. Irish ministers estimate that 80 of recent arrivals have come to the country via Northern Ireland but the uk government says it wont accept any Asylum Returns from the eu via ireland. Our Political Correspondent helen catt reports. The border between the republic of ireland and Northern Ireland is designed to be easy to cross. But the Irish Government says its recently seen an influx
to thousands of people to albania. we have seen the numbers arriving from albania drop by over 90%, showing deterrence works and that s what the rwanda scheme is about, providing that deterrent and that s why it s important to get it through parliament. the documents i have seen, number 10 documents from 2022, describe your view as believing the deterrent would not work. do you deny that? i haven t seen the documents so i can t comment on that. do you deny you had doubts about the deterrent effect of sending people to africa? the proof is in my actions. i obviously believe deterrence works because when i became prime minister, i prioritised getting a scheme up and running with albania, which is now working. we have returned more than 5,000 people to albania as a result of that new deal. we have seen the numbers coming from albania drop by over i9%, showing that deterrence works. that s why i prioritised getting that up and running.