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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Priti Patel blames lawyers as she admits Rwanda plan will ‘take time’

Priti Patel with police officers
Priti Patel talks to police during her visit to the Metropolitan police's specialist training centre in Gravesend, Kent. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Priti Patel has admitted that it will take time to establish the government’s high-profile plan to send people who arrive in the UK without authorisation to Rwanda, amid growing suspicion that it will not solve the migration crisis in the Channel.

In a further attack on the legal profession, the home secretary blamed “specialist lawyers” as the main reason for the delays in setting up the scheme.

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