Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plans mark a ‘dark day’ for Britain, warns Humza Yousaf

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The UK Government’s Rwanda plans are a “real dark day” for the country, Humza Yousaf has said. The First Minister accused the Prime Minister of dismantling asylum processes during FMQs on Thursday.

Yousaf's grandfather came to Scotland from Pakistan in the 1960s to work in a sewing machine factory in Clydebank His comments came as Scottish Tory leader and Moray MP Douglas Ross told journalists in Holyrood he plans to back the UK Government’s Bill declaring Rwanda a safe destination for asylum seekers.The emergency legislation looks to get around the Supreme Court’s block on previous plans to send asylum seekers to the African nation.

Tory PM Rishi Sunak hailed the plans during a Downing Street press conference on Thursday. At FMQs, Yousaf was asked by SNP MSP Clare Haughey whether he condemns further immigration plans which will see care workers prevented from bringing their families with them to the UK.The First Minister responded: “It’s a real dark day for the UK – a country that once welcomed immigrants, including my grandfather to the country, in fact, begged him to come and others to come to work in their factories, to drive buses, due to the labour shortages that were seen at that time.”He also took aim at Labour as he accused successive governments at Westminster of watering down migration policies.Yousaf said: “What successive UK governments have done – Labour and Conservatives – is they have, bit by bit, dismantled our immigration and indeed our asylum processes.“On immigration, the latest announcements mean that we’re asking – the UK Government is asking – migrants to come here to look after our own family members but doing so by abandoning their own family members back home.“On asylum, the UK Government has