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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Nimo Omer

Wednesday briefing: How Britain and Ireland came to a diplomatic deadlock over Rwanda

Asylum seekers outside the International Protection Office, in Dublin.
Asylum seekers outside the International Protection Office, in Dublin. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

Good morning.

Dealing with the problems that have emerged from the government’s Rwanda scheme has turned into a game of whack-a-mole for the prime minister. Parliamentary deadlock for months on end, internal rebellions, growing condemnation from lawyers and human rights organisations of a scheme that has been described as “performative cruelty”. And now it threatens the harmony between the UK and its nearest neighbour.

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