Rwanda

Rwanda’s opposition leader has said that Rwanda is not a safe country for asylum seekers to be sent from the UK. Victoire Imgabire Umuhoza told Sky News this morning that the deal between Rwanda and the UK is “illegal” because the central African nation is “not a free country”.  » Read More

The PR machine has been working overtime for Suella Braverman in Rwanda this weekend. She is extolling how Rwanda will be a place supporting refugees’ wellbeing and integration – helping them make a new life, in safety. Why on earth can’t this be the story she promotes of the UK?  » Read More

In a statement to the House of Commons, home secretary Priti Patel told MPs that she remains “committed” to the policy to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda when they illegally enter the UK despite the European Court of Human Rights halting the flight. Labour’s Yvette Cooper accused the home secretary of knowing “she didn’t have…

In an urgent question, Stuart C. McDonald of the SNP asked home minister Tom Pursglove to give a statement on the planned removal of asylum seekers to Rwanda, with McDonald labelling the scheme “state sponsored trafficking and transportation”.  Pursglove rejected this “offensive” characterisation, underlining that the scheme complies “fully with our legal and international obligations”.…

To send refugees who have made their way to the UK to Rwanda is inhuman, shallow, expensive, and counterproductive.   What is the problem that Rwanda is a solution to? It can’t be that the government wants to deter refugees coming here on account of there being too many. After all, the UK’s island status means…