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Torcuil Crichton

Rwanda migrant deportation flights to go ahead as legal appeal fails

Migrant deportations from the UK to Rwanda will go ahead on Tuesday after a bid to block Priti Patel’s controversial policy failed, judges at the Court of Appeal have ruled.

The Home Secretary scored a victory in the High Court on Friday when a judge concluded it was in her power to fly asylum seekers to the east African state.

A last-ditch challenge was launched in the Court of Appeal on Monday, as refugee charities, a union and one of the people to be sent to east Africa argued the policy is unlawful.

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