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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Patrick Daly

No 10 refuses to rebuke minister for Rwanda ‘marginal benefit’ comments

PA Wire

Downing Street has refused to criticise a UK Government minister who said the policy of sending migrants to Rwanda would have only a “marginal benefit”.

The Prime Minister’s spokesman described the policy of giving migrants arriving unlawfully in Britain a one-way ticket to the east African nation as an “important part of what will be the solution” to the issue of small boats crossing the English Channel.

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