Deportation flights to Rwanda from the UK for asylum seekers could reportedly start as soon as this summer.
statement said it would allow the government to deliver on its new Illegal Migration Bill as it would mean those coming to the UK illegally, who ‘cannot be returned to their home country’, will be ‘in scope to be relocated to Rwanda’.
No one has made the journey yet, and a flight was stopped at the eleventh hour last year after an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme: ‘The reason why we haven’t been able to proceed with Rwanda is because it’s currently before the courts.‘But as soon as that process is through – and I’m confident our policy is lawful – we will get cracking straight away with the Rwanda policy and use that as a tool in our armoury.’
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