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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Martin Bentham

Suella Braverman on backfoot over Rwanda migrant plan

Suella Braverman has rebuffed claims that she and her plan to send migrants to Rwanda are “cruel” as she risked a new row by accusing people arriving on small boats of having “heightened levels of criminality” and “values at odds with our country”.

The Home Secretary said she was determined to deliver her plan to stop anyone arriving illegally in Britain from claiming asylum and to create an added “deterrence” by flying those arriving unlawfully to the African country.

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