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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

Rishi Sunak Rwanda plan in disarray as 'more than 10,000 migrants cross Channel in small boats' this year

Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda plan appeared in increasing disarray as more than 10,000 migrants are thought to have arrived in the UK so far this year after crossing the Channel.

The Prime Minister admitted on Thursday that no deportation flights, carrying asylum seekers and economic migrants who had arrived in Britain by “small boats”, are set to take off for Rwanda before the July 4 general election.

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