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Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

Next Rwanda flight attempt could be weeks away, Cabinet minister suggests

The Boeing 767 was unable to take off for Rwanda on Tuesday night

(Picture: PA Wire)

A Cabinet minister suggested on Thursday that it will be weeks before the Government tries again to send migrants to Rwanda and refused to say that a single person will be deported there by the end of the year.

Home Secretary Priti Patel has stressed that the Government is already preparing for a second flight after the first one was grounded on Tuesday night after an injunction by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

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