Rishi Sunak said his government will appeal against the Court of Appeal’s ruling that his government’s Rwanda policy is unlawful. Judges said the African country had not provided enough detail to prove it is a “safe third country” and that refugees deported there by Britain could be forced to return to the country from which […]
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Suella Braverman did not invite journalists from the BBC, Guardian, Independent or Daily Mirror on her Rwanda trip and is only taking reporters from media outlets perceived as “friendly” to the government. Representatives from outlets including GB News, the Times, Telegraph, Express and Daily Mail are accompanying the home secretary on the tax-payer funded two-day […]
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Home Office regulations affecting millions of EU citizens living in the UK under the settlement scheme are unlawful, a high court judge has ruled. A watchdog guarding EU citizens’ rights in the UK has warned the current scheme could create hundreds-of-thousands of illegal immigrants overnight. The measures are part of the post-Brexit EU settlement scheme […]
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The High Court has ruled it is lawful for the UK government to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. The High Court also ruled in favour of eight asylum seekers who were set to have been on the first flight from the UK to Rwanda in June. Judges found that the eight individual cases had not […]
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Suella Braverman has been reappointed home secretary less than a week after plunging Liz Truss’s government into a death spiral. The successor Rishi Sunak started his first hours as prime minister with a reshuffle of the cabinet and a pledge to fix the “mistakes” made by Truss’s government. Sunak warned of “difficult decisions” ahead before […]
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Home secretary Priti Patel will use the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham “as diplomatic cover” in her attempts to reach Rwanda-style deals with more African countries. A Home Office source said the Games “provide a platform for initial discussion” and meetings with delegations from Nigeria, Botswana, The Gambia and other countries are set to take place, […]
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Boris Johnson’s premiership has been plunged into yet another crisis with the Conservative party chairman Oliver Dowden resigning in the immediate wake of double by-election defeats. The Liberal Democrats overturned a 24,000 Conservative majority in Tiverton and Honiton to inflict the Tories’ biggest by-election defeat in British political history. Labour piled on the pressure on […]
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Prince Charles has criticised the UK government’s policy to deport migrants to Rwanda as “appalling” while the high court rejected a legal challenge against the plan. The Prince of Wales is reported to be “particularly frustrated at Boris Johnson’s asylum policy” which was given the green light by the high court who ruled on Friday […]
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Asylum seekers to the UK will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda, Boris Johnson has announced amid fresh reports the prime minister will receive more fines for lockdown law-breaking. Johnson defended the £120 million asylum seekers deal with Rwanda as the “morally right thing to do” while opponents have questioned the timing of the […]
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