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Stephanie van den Berg

UK wins court row with Rwanda over failed migrant deal

Britain will not have to pay Rwanda tens of millions of ‌pounds over a cancelled asylum deal, the Permanent Court of Arbitration has ruled.

The Hague-based body said it had rejected all financial claims made by Rwanda, which had argued Britain still needed to honour the terms of the deal which Prime Minister Keir Starmer cancelled in 2024.

After taking office that ‌year, Starmer ‌scrapped the ⁠prior Conservative government's asylum plan, under which Rwanda would have ​been paid to take in migrants who had illegally arrived in Britain.

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