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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Amy Gibbons

Ex-Tory home secretary warns Rwanda scheme is ‘brutal’ and ‘impractical’

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The Government’s controversial scheme to send migrants on a one-way trip to Rwanda is “brutal” and “impractical”, a former Tory home secretary has warned.

Amber Rudd, who held the role from 2016 to 2018 when she resigned over the Windrush scandal, said the initiative should never have been introduced, adding that it was “extraordinary” for the current Home Secretary Suella Braverman to say she dreamed of seeing it through.

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