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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Josh Halliday

Rwanda asylum plan is ‘almost Easter story of redemption’, says Rees-Mogg

People arrive at Dover on Sunday after being picked up in the Channel by Border Force
People arrive at Dover on Sunday after being picked up in the Channel by Border Force. Photograph: Hollie Adams/Getty Images

Jacob Rees-Mogg has defended the government’s plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda as “almost an Easter story of redemption” after the policy was criticised as “depressing”, “distressing” and ungodly by church leaders.

The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, used a scathing Easter Sunday address to say that the scheme “must stand the judgment of God – and it cannot”.

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