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Rwanda ‘more akin to detention camp than sovereign state’, claims ex-ambassador

Senior Conservative MPs have also questioned the logic behind the Nationality and Borders Bill

Evening Standard

Rwanda ‘more akin to detention camp than sovereign state’, says ex-ambassador

Senior Conservative MPs have also questioned the logic behind the Nationality and Borders Bill.

The Independent UK

Priti Patel faces legal challenge against Rwanda deportation deal

Exclusive: Asylum seeker launches court action against Home Office arguing plan is unlawful

The Independent UK

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Rwanda plan ‘may push asylum seekers into hiding to avoid being deported’

Legal advisor says Rwanda plan is going to ‘backfire’ as terrified asylum seekers will go ‘underground’

The Independent UK

Everything about this refugee deterrent plan is flawed

The U.K.’s Rwanda asylum plan is marked by a set of burning issues — moral, legal and political

The Hindu

Priti Patel asylum plan ‘not racist or illegal’, civil servants told

Home Office official seeks to reassure staff over refugees to Rwanda scheme as union considers action over ‘callous policy’

The Guardian - UK

Humanity must be at the core of Britain’s asylum policy

Letters: Prof Guy S Goodwin-Gill, Mike Lowenstein, Peter Brayne and Charlie Owen on alternatives to the Rwanda scheme and why we need to move to a culture of helping, not hindering, vulnerable human beings

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Home Office staff urge colleagues to 'organise and resist' against Rwanda policy on forum

Junior civil servants asked senior colleagues for advice in the forum, discussing how they could 'cope' with their conscience 'with this sort of policy'

Daily Mirror

Home Office staff tell bosses they feel ‘nothing but deepest shame’ over ‘ungodly’ Rwanda plan

Exclusive: Avalanche of questions and comments directed at permant secretary from employees raising alarm over ‘immoral’ policy

The Independent UK

Denmark may follow UK lead on sending asylum seekers to Rwanda

Denmark is mulling the possibility of transferring its asylum seekers to Rwanda, the most overpopulated country on the African continent.

Radio France Internationale

Home Office staff threaten mutiny over Priti Patel’s ‘shameful’ Rwanda deal

Civil servants express ‘deep shame’ and suggest they should ‘resist’ plans to ship refugees to Africa

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson ally suggests he shouldn't apologise to Commons - but Keir Starmer should

Brazen minister Nadhim Zahawi demanded Labour's leader apologise for "misleading Parliament" - while blocking an investigation into Boris Johnson for doing just that

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson doubles down on criticism of archbishop over ‘morally right’ Rwanda plan

PM ‘surprised’ to hear migration plan criticised by Justin Welby

The Independent UK

PM strikes back in row with Church of England over Rwanda asylum seeker plan

Lambeth Palace issued a defence of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

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Tory MPs reject bid to give parliament say over asylum offshoring amid backlash to Rwanda deal

Labour calls plan ‘extortionate, unworkable and profoundly un-British’

The Guardian - UK

Home Office staff threaten mutiny over ‘shameful’ Rwanda asylum deal

On an intranet noticeboard civil servants drew a comparison with serving under Adolf Hitler, and asked if they had a duty to ‘resist’

The Independent UK

Tory MPs raise concerns over Rwanda asylum seeker plan as flagship Bill debated

The Nationality and Borders Bill would allow the Government to send asylum seekers and migrants to the African country.

Bristol Post

City centre protest planned against Rwanda 'off-shoring' of asylum-seekers

The proposal has proved controversial

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Evening Standard

Boris Johnson rejects call to apologise to Justin Welby over Rwanda plan criticism

Sir Keir accused Boris Johnson of attacking the institutions which make the UK great following his alleged criticism of the BBC and Justin Welby

The Independent UK

Lily Cole: Government’s Rwanda asylum plan ‘like something in a dystopian film’

Celebrities, refugees and campaigners gathered on a boat outside the Houses of Parliament to send a message to MPs.

The Guardian - UK

No 10 goes into battle with archbishops over Rwanda asylum plan

Downing Street refuses to deny PM told MPs archbishops were being unfairly critical as church figures defend Justin Welby

The Independent UK

Johnson denies attacking BBC coverage of Russia’s war with Ukraine

Boris Johnson said there was ‘absolutely no basis’ to claims he criticised the corporation over its coverage of Vladimir Putin’s invasion.

Evening Standard

Rwanda scheme is flawed, but what will work?

When Theresa May told MPs yesterday that she opposed Priti Patel’s plan to send migrants inadmissible for asylum in this country to Rwanda on the grounds of “legality, practicality and efficacy” she joined the barrage of criticism that has greeted the Home Secretary since she unveiled her scheme last week in…

Daily Mirror

BBC confronts top Tory over Boris Johnson as Church condemns PM's 'disgraceful slur'

Sources say Boris Johnson claimed the BBC and Archbishop were keener to criticise him than Putin. But BBC presenter Justin Webb told Tory Paul Scully it was a 'smokescreen' while a Church of England official said it was a 'disgraceful slur'

The Independent UK

Stay in France if you don’t want to go to Rwanda, minister tells asylum seekers

Rwanda plan will help stop traffickers ‘feeding on misery’, says business minister

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