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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Sunak welcomes Kagame to No 10 as Rwanda scheme hits fresh snags

Rishi Sunak with Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame
Rishi Sunak with Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame, outside No 10 Downing Street on Tuesday. The Rwanda bill returns to the Commons next week. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Rishi Sunak has welcomed the Rwandan president to Downing Street amid signs that ministers are struggling to find an airline or housing in Kigali to carry out their flagship deportation plan.

The meeting on Tuesday was overshadowed by the former home secretary Suella Braverman’s criticism of fallen expectations over the policy, which aims to forcibly send people seeking asylum 4,000 miles to central Africa.

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