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Jack Kessler

OPINION - West End Final: Rishi Sunak to appeal ruling that Rwanda migrant plan is ‘unlawful’

The government’s flagship immigration policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda has been blocked by senior judges.

Last December, the High Court rejected legal challenges to the scheme from individual migrants and the charity Asylum Aid. But as our courts correspondent Tristan Kirk reports, this morning the Court of Appeal ruled by a majority of two-to-one that the policy would put asylum seekers at risk and is unlawful.

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