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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

New Rwanda legislation will be 'legally watertight', minister says after treaty signing

The Government said on Wednesday it will do “whatever is necessary" to ensure emergency legislation designed to salvage its flagship Rwanda deportation plan is safe from legal challenge.

Home Office minister Chris Philp said the new law would be published in "days not weeks", following a new treaty signed with Rwanda in light of a major setback for the UK Government in the Supreme Court.

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