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Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Supreme Court battle over government’s Rwanda deportation policy begins

A legal battle to decide the future of the government’s controversial Rwanda deportation plan for asylum seekers has begun in the Supreme Court.

The Home Office struck a multimillion pound deal with the east African nation a year-and-a-half ago in a bid to deter thousands of people from crossing the Channel to the UK in small boats.

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