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Jitendra Joshi and David Lynch

Kemi Badenoch says Rwanda is safe for a gap year as first migrant heads there from UK

The first failed asylum seeker has been sent from Britain to Rwanda under a voluntary scheme as a Cabinet minister pushed back at critics by arguing the African nation was safe enough for a gap year.

“This is somebody who’s actually volunteered to go to Rwanda, which puts to bed this nonsensical myth that Rwanda was not a safe place,” Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch told LBC on Wednesday.

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