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Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Government plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful, High Court rules

A legal challenge to the government’s controversial plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda has failed after High Court judges concluded the policy is lawful.

A bitter battle over the flights to the East African nation has been waged since then-Home Secretary Priti Patel announced the policy in April, when she declared it as a measure to deter migrant boats from crossing the Channel.

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