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Bill McLoughlin

Boris Johnson defends timing of shock Kyiv visit and ‘confident’ Rwanda flights will go ahead

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after arriving at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, following a surprise visit to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, Ukraine (Joe Giddens/PA)

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Boris Johnson defended the timing of his shock visit to the Ukraine and insisted the UK will push ahead with its plans to fly illegal immigrants to Rwanda as he returned to the UK on Saturday.

The Prime Minister pulled out of a conference in Doncaster on Friday in order to visit Kyiv for a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky - his second to the state.

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