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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

Sending asylum seekers to Rwanda will provoke punch ups at airports, says minister

Tory plans to send Channel boat migrants to Rwanda will provoke violent confrontations at airports, a former Cabinet Minister warned today.

Ex-International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell feared asylum seekers would forcibly resist attempts to corral them on to planes from Britain to East Africa.

“It will be very difficult to transport them because we know that people will fight to stop getting on planes,” he told the BBC.

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