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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Pippa Crerar

Tories complain about Archbishop of Canterbury criticising their Rwanda refugee plan

The Archbishop of Canterbury has prompted the anger of right-wing Tories over his claim that forcing asylum seekers to Rwanda was "opposite of the nature of God".

Jacob-Rees Mogg accused the Head of the Church of England of "misunderstanding" Tory asylum policy which refugee groups have branded cruel.

The Cabinet minister, a practicing Catholic, denied the Government was abandoning its responsibility to vulnerable people.

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