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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

Priti Patel WINS court fight to fly people to Rwanda - but only handful will be on board

Britain's first charter flight forcing unwanted asylum seekers to Rwanda is set to be allowed tomorrow after Priti Patel won a bitter fight in the Court of Appeal.

Three judges led by Lord Justice Singh backed a High Court judge who refused to grant an injunction against the forced removal of people who arrived on small boats to the UK.

It means - unless it is derailed by a separate injunction bid in the High Court tonight - the flight will go ahead tomorrow, despite the Archbishop of Canterbury branding the plan ungodly and Prince Charles reportedly calling it "appalling".

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