Jenrick: EU Migration Pack ‘Not Worth the Paper It’s Written On’

The former minister said watering down the Rwanda policy would ‘consigning us to many more years of small boat crossings’ with ’bleak' European outlook.

Minister of State Robert Jenrick leaves a Cabinet Meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, on Nov. 1, 2022. Leon Neal/Getty Images

The new EU migration pact is “not worth the paper it’s written on,” former immigration minister Robert Jenrick said on Friday as he pressured the government to be tougher on tackling illegal migration.

EU leaders on Wednesday agreed on its New Pact on Migration and Asylum, which was touted as the answer to the EU’s migration woes when it was made public in September 2020.