Sunak welcomes Kagame to No 10 as Rwanda scheme hits fresh snags
Meeting to discuss PM’s key policy overshadowed by reports of lack of housing for deportees or airline to remove them from UK Rishi Sunak has...
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Elite cyclist to lead London race while living in asylum hotel
Trhas Tesfay, from war-torn Ethiopia, says she suffers hunger headaches as she cannot eat Home Office hotel meals One of Ethiopia’s elite female cyclists will...
‘Potentially serious impropriety’: Labour questions Johnson’s Venezuela meeting
Former PM’s meeting with President Maduro, in capacity as hedge fund consultant, is under further scrutiny Labour is demanding answers over what the party said...
Jamaica condemns Frank Hester’s Diane Abbott comments amid concern over contract
Ministers condemn allegedly racist remarks and say they knew about them only after signing deal The Jamaican government has joined widespread condemnation of comments by...
Boris Johnson ‘held unofficial talks with president of Venezuela in February’
Former PM apparently met autocratic leader Nicolás Maduro over concerns he may supply weapons to Russia Boris Johnson flew to Venezuela in February for unofficial...
Lords pass five amendments to Rwanda bill in heavy defeat for Rishi Sunak
Peers, including senior Tories, vote by margins of about 100 votes for changes to legislation, which will have to go back to Commons Rishi Sunak...
Rwanda plan to cost UK £1.8m for each asylum seeker, figures show
Disclosure, calculated on basis of 300 deportations, called ‘staggering’ by chair of home affairs committee Rishi Sunak’s flagship plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda...
Shell must clean up pollution before it leaves Niger delta, report says
Firm told it must take responsibility for toxic legacy of pollution and safe decommissioning of abandoned oil infrastructure The oil firm Shell cannot be allowed...
Fujitsu won £1.4bn in new government contracts after court ruling on Post Office software bugs
MPs find Treasury-affiliated bodies have engaged Horizon firm since damning 2019 high court judgment The Japanese technology company Fujitsu, whose flawed technology for the Post...
Council of Europe calls on UK not to process asylum claims in Rwanda
People may be exposed to abuses such as torture and degrading treatment in Rwanda, says watchdog Europe’s leading anti-torture watchdog has called on the government...
