Downing Street was unable to confirm when the first flights sending migrants to the east African nation would begin.
signed what she described as a “world-first” agreement with Rwanda, which will see it receive asylum seekers deemed by the UK to have arrived “illegally” and therefore inadmissible under new immigration rules. But the deal is already subject to legal challenges.
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