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Rwanda migrants - latest: Asylum seeker plan will save UK money, minister insists despite £30K cost per person

Senior Tory says plan is ‘unworkable’ and will involve ‘astronomical costs’

The Independent UK

Kate Garraway forced to apologise for asylum seeker comment on GMB as Adil Ray fumes

Kate Garraway was hosting Friday's edition of Good Morning Britain alongside Adil Ray when she made a self-confessed 'factual error' whilst discussing refugees fleeing Rwanda last year

Daily Mirror

Rwandan asylum seeker plan ‘immoral and impractical’, former Tory cabinet minister says

‘It would actually be cheaper to put each asylum seeker in the Ritz hotel in London’

The Independent UK

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GMB's Adil Ray grills MP on asylum seekers being sent to Rwanda in heated interview

Adil repeatedly asked 'would you live in Rwanda?'

Liverpool Echo

Tory minister confronted over his OWN government's Rwanda warnings in car crash interview

Home Office minister Tom Pursglove complained there were 'appalling stereotypes' about Rwanda - so Sky News immediately read out his own government's travel advice

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson wants first asylum seekers flown to Rwanda 'in six weeks'

The Prime Minister is aiming to have the first asylum seekers, who are deemed to have arrived in the UK illegally, flown out to Rwanda in around six weeks in a bid to curb Channel crossings

Daily Mirror

Refugee policy a new low for Tories

A pressing issue is addressing the situation of people crossing the English Channel in boats, often in perilous conditions.

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What the papers say – April 15

Good Friday’s front pages report on Boris Johnson’s controversial scheme to ‘process’ Channel migrants offshore.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson wants first ‘illegal’ migrants flown to Rwanda in six weeks

The Government is braced for its widely criticised plans to be challenged in the courts.

The Independent UK

'Sending asylum seekers to Rwanda is a gimmick by PM to distract people from Partygate'

The Government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will do little to deter desperate people from trying to enter Britain, nor will it tackle migrant smuggling and human trafficking

Daily Mirror

PM's 'cruel' plan to take asylum seekers to Rwanda branded 'inhumane and unlawful'

Boris Johnson claimed the £120m initial deal with Rwanda would stop vile people traffickers 'turning the Channel into a watery graveyard', but admitted the plan could be held up by court fights

Daily Mirror

'Nasty' Rwanda asylum seeker scheme exposed - what it will cost and why it will fail

The UK has signed a five-year deal effective immediately for Rwanda to take Britain’s unwanted asylum seekers. Anyone the Home Office deems 'inadmissible' to claim asylum in the UK can be taken to Rwanda

Daily Mirror

UK condemned Rwanda for human rights abuses months before signing deal to send asylum seekers there

‘Ludicrous’ to think people seeking sanctuary in UK can build lives in east African nation, say experts

The Independent UK

UK asylum seekers to be housed in no-frills hostel in Rwandan capital

People fleeing persecution to be taken to stripped-back Hope guest house in Kigali, which has only 50 rooms

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The Independent UK

160 charities and campaign groups condemn ‘shamefully cruel’ migrant plans

Charities and campaigners urged the Government to ‘instead create humane and effective solutions’ for those seeking refuge in the UK.

The Guardian - UK

UK Rwanda plan for asylum seekers decried as inhumane, expensive and deadly

Politicians, legal experts and refugee groups condemn Johnson’s plan to ‘offshore’ Channel crossing crisis

Daily Mirror

'Cynical Tories don't care about Rwanda's terrible human rights record'

Jason Beattie says the decision to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda stinks of a Prime Minister desperate to move the attention away from his lawbreaking partying

The Guardian - UK

What are the Tories trying to achieve by offshoring asylum seekers?

Analysis: Tories keen to shore up support with tough immigration policy but there are concerns about the detail

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Daily Mirror

Man who saved 1,200 people during Rwanda genocide wrongly convicted of terrorism

Paul Rusesabagina is serving 25 years for 'terrorism offences', with his family saying he was kidnapped while on a flight from Dubai to Burundi and given an unfair trial

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Britain’s Rwanda deal: a cruel, cynical pretence

Editorial: Sending asylum seekers on a one-way journey does nothing to address the global refugee crisis

The Guardian - UK

Johnson the Criminal lays down the law for asylum seekers

Prime minister proffers surreal reasons for sending people fleeing war to human rights paradise of Rwanda

The Guardian - UK

‘Inhumane’: some Tories criticise plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Small but vehement group have already expressed doubts about government’s outsourcing plan

The Guardian - UK

Rwanda asylum seeker plan is just a senseless soundbite

Letter: Mike Cushman on why the Conservative government’s ‘war on refugees’ is unwinnable

The Independent UK

UK to send asylum seekers to Rwanda despite granting protection to dozens fleeing nation in past decade

Expert warns of immediate concern those being sent to African country could face similar threats to those who have fled in recent years

The Guardian - UK

Rwanda asylum plan: who does it target and is it going to happen?

Plans have surprised many, have few precedents and have been condemned as cruel and unworkable

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