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Dan Bloom & Catherine Swan

Boris Johnson vows to defend Rwanda asylum seekers plan to Prince Charles

Boris Johnson has said that he is prepared to defend his Government’s Rwanda asylum plan to Prince Charles during an upcoming meeting with the royal. The Prime Minister was speaking at a Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Rwanda.

He is set to meet the future King in the country’s capital city of Kigali on Friday, The Mirror reports . Mr Johnson said at the meeting that he would be demanding his critics “keep an open mind about the policy”, referring to the controversial plans to send asylum seekers arriving in the UK to Rwanda.

He continued: “If I am seeing the prince tomorrow, I am going to be making that point.”

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