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The claim comes after Deputy Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell said ‘Kigali is arguably safer than London’

Britain's parliament on Monday passed a bill under which asylum seekers would be deported to Rwanda to await a decision on their applications, in a bid by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to stop people making the dangerous sea crossing to the UK across the Channel.

In today’s newsletter: After months of wrangling, Parliament passed the government’s controversial plan to tackle small boats

The controversial law is expected to come into force within days with the first deportation flights in weeks.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak 's latest effort to send some migrants to Rwanda finally won approval from Parliament early Tuesday, hours after he pledged deportation flights would begin in July.

UK Parliament approves bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, facing legal challenges and opposition.

The British government has pushed the plan as a way to deter asylum-seekers from taking boats to Britain. But the U.N. human rights office has warned aviation authorities not to take part.

Key dates in the Conservatives’ struggle to push through their policy of processing asylum seekers in a third country

Lawyers prepare for legal battles on behalf of individual asylum seekers challenging removal to east Africa