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A furious row broke out on Thursday over government plans to send “tens of thousands” of asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing.
Although the move was branded “irresponsible” and unworkable by opposition politicians and human rights groups, the Prime Minister used a landmark speech at Lydd Airport in Kent to insist the new hardline immigration policy would be “fully compliant” with Britain’s international legal obligations.
But he accepted that the agreement with the Rwandan government, which was being signed by Home Secretary Priti Patel and Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta on Thursday morning in the African nation’s capital Kigali, was likely to face a legal challenge.
