Candidates Both Vow Migrant Crackdown

THE UK will crack down further on illegal migration in the coming months regardless of who enters Downing Street, after both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak pledged fresh measures to tighten British borders.

On a weekend in which the two rival camps traded blows over tax cuts and economic credibility, the Foreign Secretary and the former chancellor appeared united on the need to toughen up UK policy on migrants.

Ms Truss promised an expanded Border Force and Mr Sunak committed to an annual cap on the number of refugees coming to Britain.

The leadership campaign has so far seen both candidates re-commit to the Government's controversial Rwanda asylum scheme, over which Britain currently stands to lose the £120m it has paid to Rwanda if the plan to deport migrants is ruled unlawful by the courts.