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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Summer Goodkind

Lily Cole: Government’s Rwanda asylum plan ‘like something in a dystopian film’

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Model and actress Lily Cole has likened the Government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda to “something you’d see in a dystopian film” as she joined a protest on the Thames.

Cole was among celebrities, refugees and campaigners who gathered on a boat which sailed past the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday to send a message to MPs to “vote to protect not punish refugees” as the Nationality and Borders Bill was set to be voted on in the Commons.

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