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Peter Davidson

'Immoral and ineffective' Rwanda migrant plan is lawful, High Court rules

UK Government plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful, the High Court has ruled.

Several challenges were brought against the proposals announced by then-home secretary Priti Patel in April, which she described as a "world-first agreement" with the east African nation in a bid to deter migrants from crossing the Channel.

The first deportation flight - due to take off on June 14 - was then grounded amid a series of objections against individual removals and the policy as a whole.

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