Priti Patel blames lawyers as she admits Rwanda plan will ‘take time’
Home secretary attacks ‘specialist lawyers’ as Labour calls delayed plan little more than a press release Priti Patel has admitted that it will take time...
Category : Rwanda
Small boat asylum seekers undeterred by Rwanda plan, survey finds
Survey of asylum seekers in northern France finds three-quarters will try to reach UK despite government’s offshoring plans Deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlikely...
Priti Patel’s Rwanda asylum seeker plan faces first legal challenge
Charity Freedom from Torture says it has ‘serious concerns’ about lawfulness of policy Priti Patel’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is facing its...
UN refugee agency condemns Boris Johnson’s Rwanda asylum plan
Gillian Triggs, assistant high commissioner at UNHCR, says plan is ‘symbolic gesture’ that will prove unworkable The UN’s refugee agency has condemned Boris Johnson’s plan...
Priti Patel could face Home Office mutiny over Rwanda asylum plan
Unions say civil servants could stage mass walkouts after home secretary overruled their concerns UK’s Rwanda plan will fail, says UNHCR Peers will fight UK...
‘I will die here, I can’t go back to Africa’: migrants respond to Rwanda removal
Asylum seekers say there is no freedom in Rwanda and fear for their lives if sent to Africa Small boat arrivals on the Kent coast...
Sending UK asylum seekers to Rwanda will save money, claims minister
Claim about long-term benefits disputed by MP Andrew Mitchell who describes reported cost of £30,000 a person as ‘eye-watering’ Britain will save money in the...
What are the Tories trying to achieve by offshoring asylum seekers?
Analysis: Tories keen to shore up support with tough immigration policy but there are concerns about the detail When Boris Johnson’s position was at its...
UK asylum seekers to be housed in no-frills hostel in Rwandan capital
People fleeing persecution to be taken to stripped-back Hope guest house in Kigali, which has only 50 rooms Asylum seekers flown to Rwanda by the...
‘We feel safer’: how green energy is brightening refugee lives in Rwanda
Solar panels and cleaner-burning stoves have reduced dangers faced by residents of three camps “The camp has come from the dark into the light,” says...
