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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

Mel Stride claims only reason Rwanda scheme failed was because Labour scrapped it

Mel Stride has claimed the only reason the previous Tory government’s Rwanda scheme failed to work was because it was scrapped by the Labour Party in their first week in office.

He comments came despite the scheme being bound up in legal challenges and failing to get a single flight off the ground in more than two years after it was announced by then-prime minister Boris Johnson.

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