More than 33,000 migrants are at risk of being deported to Rwanda

Migrants arrive in Britain after crossing the English Channel from France to Dover in Kent – Stuart Brock/Shutterstock More than 33,000 migrants risk deportation to Rwanda if flights take off, figures from the Ministry of the Interior showed on Tuesday. Some 33,085 asylum claims have been made since Rishi Sunak’s ‘stop the boats’ legislation became … Read more

Support the Rwanda Bill or risk parliament’s sovereignty, say QCs

The Prime Minister’s plans have been endorsed by four leading British lawyers – ANDY RAIN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Emergency legislation in Rwanda cannot go further, four leading lawyers have warned. The four QCs – including Geoffrey Cox, the former attorney general – say attempts to tighten the Rwanda law risk violating international law, forcing Rwanda to abandon the … Read more