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UK government’s Rwanda asylum policy ‘just for political game playing’, says Yvette Cooper
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper joined us from parliament.
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Rwanda asylum seeker deportation flight to go ahead after court rejects appeal
Downing Street insists the flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda will go ahead as planned tomorrow, after the Court of Appeal rejected a legal challenge.
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Rwanda flight protesters gather at deportation centre
Human rights activists have been demonstrating at a detention centre near Gatwick Airport against the government’s plans to send asylum seekers on a one-way ticket to Rwanda.
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Prince Charles reportedly criticises Rwanda plan – with first deportation flights expected next week
Newspaper reports suggest Prince Charles has privately called the government’s Rwanda plan “appalling”.
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High Court judge allows migrant flight to Rwanda to go ahead
A High Court judge has refused to grant an injunction to halt a flight expected to deport dozens of people to Rwanda on Tuesday.
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Justin Welby on free speech, Rwanda and partygate
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby responded to the Sue Gray report on Twitter this week saying: “Standards in public life are the glue that holds us together – we need to rediscover them and abide by them.”
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Home Office refuses to rule out Ukrainian and Afghanistan refugees being deported to Rwanda
A Home Office minister has refused to rule out the possibility that refugees from Ukraine or Afghanistan could be deported to Rwanda under the government’s new policy.
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Home Office admits LGBTQ refugees sent to Rwanda could face ‘ill-treatment’
The Home Office has admitted that LGBTQ refugees who are sent to Rwanda could face ill treatment – but said government plans to relocate people to the east African country would continue.
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Home Secretary defends new Rwanda asylum seeker policy
Shortly before the prime minister’s Partygate statement – it was the Home Secretary, Priti Patel who took the floor to explain the government’s plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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Rwanda asylum seeker policy does not withstand ‘judgement of God’, says Archbishop
Home Secretary Priti Patel’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda doesn’t withstand ‘the judgement of God’, according to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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‘Inhumane and heartless’ – Civil Service unions oppose Rwanda asylum plan
Two Civil Service unions have voiced their opposition to the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, one describing it as ‘inhumane’ and ‘heartless’.
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Deterrence the main aim of Rwanda immigration plan, says Conservative MP
We spoke to Craig Mackinlay, the Conservative MP for South Thanet, about the Government’s proposed immigration policy to send people to Rwanda.
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Asylum seekers who arrived in UK this year could be sent to Rwanda, government says
The government says it intends to “quickly” implement its controversial new plan to send people to Rwanda – announcing that anyone who’s arrived in the UK seeking asylum this year, may be handed a one-way ticket.
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Rwanda asylum plans: ‘Desperate and shameful’ attempt to distract from partygate, says Yvette Cooper
We spoke to Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.
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Rwanda asylum plans: ‘We’ve got to deter these crossings’, says Tory MP
We speak to Conservative MP, Tom Hunt, who heads the Home Affairs Policy Committee among backbench Conservative MPs. We began by asking him what he thought of the plans.