Scrap Rwanda Migrant Resettlement Plan, Euro Body Tells Britain
AFP – Europe’s top rights body told Britain on Tuesday to withdraw its controversial plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, saying it raises “serious questions” over their rights and the rule of law. I asked. British Parliament on Monday passed a bill to expel asylum seekers to Rwanda to await a decision on their […]
Aircraft Ready to Deport Unwanted Migrants to Rwanda, Insists Sunak
The British government has announced it is booking chartered planes to ferry unwanted migrants to Africa and has airfields on standby, but admits the first flights are still three months away at best, and the EU Leave leader Nigel Farage has questioned whether he will exclude one migrant at all. The Rwanda Bill, which aims […]
Hundreds of mass graves unearthed in Rwanda decades after genocide
Thirty years after the genocide that killed an estimated 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda, new mass graves are still being discovered. At least 1,000 bodies were found in a rural area in the Huiet district. Representatives from prominent genocide survivors’ organizations said the findings underscore the need to do more for true reconciliation. The excavator’s hoe […]
Civil servants threaten ministers with legal action over Rwanda bill | Civil service
Civil servants are threatening ministers with legal action over concerns that implementing the government’s Rwanda deportation bill could put senior Home Office staff in breach of international law. The FDA trade union, which represents senior civil servants, said that complying with the minister’s request to ignore the emergency injunction barring Strasbourg’s deportation could also violate […]
‘Not a betting person’: Rishi Sunak rows back on £1,000 Rwanda bet | Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak has hit back at a £1,000 bet he made with broadcaster Piers Morgan over whether deportation flights to Rwanda will take off before the general election, saying he is “not a gambler”. Ta. The Prime Minister said on Tuesday he was “surprised” when Mr Morgan told him during an interview on Talk TV: […]
Sunak’s Rwanda plan faces more hurdles as Tory peers condemn policy | House of Lords
Rishi Sunak’s troubled plan to expel Rwanda has been condemned by Tory MPs, historians and bishops, with the House of Lords potentially requesting changes that could delay its implementation. ing. Ken Clarke, the Conservative Party’s former Lord Chancellor, joined the Archbishop of Canterbury and historian Peter Hennessy on Monday night to overturn the UK Supreme […]
The UK has a new plan for illegal immigrants: Send them to Rwanda
Why not send them to Rwanda? that's the solution British Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has endorsed the issue of illegal immigration to the UK. Granted, Britain's problems are nowhere near as serious as America's, but the government's proposal to send in as many of its 100,000 or so “illegal immigrants” (so-called “illegal immigrants”) as […]
Why so tetchy, tech bro? Rish! doesn’t take well to Rwanda fantasy being challenged | John Crace
WIs it really so? A press conference was also held in a hurry on government grounds, but it was a political broadcast from a third-rate political party. There used to be such a rule. Not that it did much good for Rishi Sunak. More of these nasty, groan-filled outings will continue, and the Conservative Party's […]
Sunak is praying for the Lords to block the Rwanda bill – so he can blame the left | Polly Toynbee
FThe honorable party never wins, Isaac Levido, Number 10's leading figure in vacillating politics, warned recalcitrant MPs last week. However, the Prime Minister's position is already very pathetic, and Tuesday's revolt by 61 MPs is unlikely to make it any worse. The bill was passed. The question is, what's next? The best hope of pious […]
Rishi Sunak to hold press conference as minister says Rwanda bill should go through Lords ‘fairly fast’ – UK politics live | Politics
important events In an interview with LBC, chris philippeThe Home Office minister argued that Rishi Sunak was in a better position given that the Rwanda Bill had received third reading. Asked whether Mr Sunak had become “stronger or weaker” following the resignation of two Conservative Party vice-chairs and a ministerial aide following the passing of […]