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UK announces controversial plan to fly migrants and asylum-seekers to Rwanda

Britain will send migrants and asylum-seekers who cross the Channel thousands of miles away to Rwanda under a controversial deal announced Thursday as the government tries to clamp down on record numbers of people making the perilous journey.

France 24

UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda sparks fierce criticism

Politicians, charities and rights groups condemn plans as ill-conceived, inhumane and evil

The Guardian - UK

UK plans to send thousands of asylum seekers to Rwanda, says Boris Johnson – as it happened

Opposition parties denounce plan as ‘shameful’ and ‘evil’; home secretary Priti Patel in Kigali today to unveil more details

The Guardian - UK

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Minister says 'no possibility' of sending refugees to Rwanda DAYS before scheme unveiled

Home Office minister Lord Harrington was astonished by questions about the prospect of "offshoring" asylum seekers in Rwanda - branded a 'massive distraction' from Boris Johnson's Partygate woes

Daily Mirror

People seeking asylum in the UK are to be flown 4,000 miles to Rwanda

The Government is signing a £13220million deal with the African nation

Chronicle Live

Boris Johnson sets out plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda amid furious backlash

The Royal Navy will take over responsibility for tackling people crossing the English Channel

Evening Standard

Thursday briefing: UK may send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Government set to unveil new measures for refugee claimants … Johnson faces more Partygate fines … and Gibraltar’s trash mountain

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Rwanda to take asylum seekers from UK for processing under Government plans

Boris Johnson is set to argue that action is needed to combat the ‘vile people smugglers’ turning the ocean into a ‘watery graveyard’.

The Independent UK

5,000-plus migrants thought to have reached UK this year after crossing Channel

Crossings resumed this week, with large numbers of people arriving in Kent, after few tried the journey in the last week of March amid bad weather.

The Independent UK

UK to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing

Deal to outsource process, described by Labour as ‘unworkable and unethical’, among range of measures to be unveiled

The Guardian - UK

Asylum seekers expected to be flown to Rwanda for processing in Government plans

Boris Johnson is set to argue that action is needed to combat the ‘vile people smugglers’ turning the ocean into a ‘watery graveyard’.

The Independent UK

Fury as Tories unveil 'cruel' plan to send asylum seekers to RWANDA - 5,000 miles away

Priti Patel will sign a deal with Rwanda after months of attempts to 'offshore' migrants in Albania and Ghana collapsed. Boris Johnson will boast he is 'taking back control of illegal immigration'

Daily Mirror

UK to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, Boris Johnson announces

Plan to ‘offshore’ people seeking refuge in Britain in African country more than 4,000 miles away condemned as ‘unworkable and nasty’

The Independent UK

Recruitment drive launched to fill first of 500 new Home Office jobs in Stoke-on-Trent

It is believed that around 100 positions are currently up for grabs within asylum and protection services

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Daily Mirror

Awkward Partygate silence of Priti Patel - who told Brits to report lockdown breakers to police

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have been fined by police investigating Downing Street parties but the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have both refused to resign

The Independent UK

‘Diabolical’ UK visa scheme nearly forced family back to Ukraine

The Home Office issued an apology to Steve Dury and the Ukrainian refugees he is sponsoring, but Mr Dury said the process left them in tears.

The Guardian - UK

Stop matching lone female Ukraine refugees with single men, UK told

UN agency intervenes after claims predatory men using Homes for Ukraine scheme to target vulnerable

Daily Mirror

Sabina Nessa would have made more headlines if she was white, grieving sister claims

Jebina Yasmin Islam told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she didn't feel her sister's murder received enough press coverage and believed it was down to her ethnicity

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Households to get £1,000 council tax discount for taking in Ukraine refugees

Those that claim a single occupancy discount, worth 25% off your council tax bill, will also be protected from losing this reduction if they take in a Ukraine refugee

Evening Standard

Refugee visa system is not a shambles — Priti Patel is on the case, George Eustice says

Figures show only 12,000 refugees from Ukraine have arrived in the UK so far out of the 3.7 million who have fled since Russia’s invasion began

The Guardian - UK

Sabina Nessa’s sister says outcry would have been greater if she were white

Jebina Yasmin Islam blames ethnicity for initial lack of headlines over murder, and also criticises Priti Patel

Evening Standard

Sabina Nessa: We would have been treated better if we were white, says family

The sister of murdered teacher Sabina Nessa has said their family would have been treated better if they were white.

The Independent UK

Sabina Nessa’s family would have been treated better if white British – sister

Koci Selamaj was jailed for at least 36 years for the murder of Ms Nessa.

Daily Mirror

Priti Patel told UK visa process for Ukrainian refugees is a 'national disgrace'

Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper branded the speed of the visa process for Ukrainian refugees as 'scandalous and shameful', leaving thousands of people 'stuck in limbo'

The Guardian - UK

Name the eight oligarchs given ‘golden visas’, demands Labour

Exclusive: Call for Priti Patel to name the Russians on sanctions list and publish report on defunct visa purchase scheme

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