Priti Patel’s latest plan for refugees has been described as unworkable, ill-thought-out and possibly illegal. But the Government is pressing ahead with it, and soon we could be sending refugees to Rwanda.
The scheme provoked an outcry as soon as it was revealed, attracting cross-party condemnation and the derision of experts.
Some would say that’s what it was there for – to distract from the PM’s current crisis with Partygate and the slump in the polls.
