Next government may face claims for compensation from Rwanda flight detainees Legal actions seek payouts for asylum seekers locked up for weeks without immediate plan for deportation The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2024
Labour manifesto: Key takeaways from Keir Starmer’s election policy launch Pledges include 1.5m more homes, 6,500 extra teachers, scrapping the Rwanda scheme and more weekend working in the NHS The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2024
Rwanda accuses UN refugee agency of lying in British asylum policy case UN lawyers say British refugee deportation plan could see Rwanda send them elsewhere, exposing them to further dangers. Al Jazeera · Jun 13, 2024
Reality check: Sunak’s tax cut claims and Starmer’s pledges Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer took questions from the public on Sky News on Wednesday. We examine their claims on tax, Rwanda deportations and NHS dentists The Guardian - UK · Jun 12, 2024
Rish!’s bargain-basement manifesto offers anything you want if you just vote Tory Don’t like foreigners? Flights to Rwanda would start in July. Don’t like the ECHR? We could rip up international treaties The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2024
‘We talk about boats … not people’: UK dehumanising refugees, Toby Jones says Exclusive: Bafta-winner to join actors and young asylum seekers in 24-hour fundraising ‘Shakespeare marathon’ The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2024
Kagame To Face Two Challengers In Rwanda Vote Rwandan President Paul Kagame will face two challengers in next month's election, according to a provisional list published Thursday. International Business Times · Jun 6, 2024
New date set for first Rwanda deportation flights if Tories win election, court documents reveal Rishi Sunak has promised that asylum seekers will be deported to the East African nation if he is re-elected The Independent UK · Jun 4, 2024
Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda admission sparks legal action from detained asylum seekers Migrants seek redress for ‘immense distress’ from deportations now thrown into chaos by election announcement The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2024
Labour has ‘no plans’ to allow health worker visas to include family members Rules were changed this year in effort to cut immigration, but experts warn bar on dependents will have significant impact on health service The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2024
Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda flights plan is not credible, damning report by MPs finds MPs say they have ‘little confidence’ in Home Office’s ability to organise deportation flights to Rwanda The Independent UK · May 29, 2024
Rishi Sunak ordered by High Court judge to come clean on first Rwanda flight date Government lawyers had told the court flights could go in late June – but then Rishi Sunak called the election The Independent UK · May 29, 2024
The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan season 4: release date, locations, trailer and everything we know The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan sees Romesh explore Africa in the fourth and final series of his BBC travelogue. WhatToWatch · May 28, 2024
Rwanda’s top UK diplomat oversaw use of Interpol to target regime opponents Exclusive: Johnston Busingye formally appointed days after UK agreed Rwanda asylum deal with Paul Kagame in 2022 The Guardian - UK · May 28, 2024
Evening Standard · May 28, 2024 Nigel Farage fuels row on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan Reform UK politician says Government’s proposals to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda won’t work and UK must leave the European Court of Human Rights
The Guardian - UK · May 28, 2024 ‘I’m frightened’: the asylum seekers rounded up to be sent to Rwanda Asylum seekers from Sudan, Eritrea and Afghanistan detained in government’s Operation Vector share their stories
The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2024 National service at the heart of Tory election focus on security Tories hope to make voters – particularly Reform supporters – nervous about prospect of major change under a Labour government
The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2024 Record 10,170 people arrive in UK via small-boat Channel crossings this year Provisional official figures deal blow to Rishi Sunak’s claim that threat of Rwanda deportation is a deterrent
Evening Standard · May 24, 2024 Rishi Sunak Rwanda plan in disarray as 'more than 10,000 migrants cross Channel in small boats' this year The Tories and Labour are making immigration a key issue for the general election
Evening Standard · May 24, 2024 OPINION - Rishi Sunak has been in last-ditch campaign mode for so long — a General Election is logical Rishi Sunak’s very first move as Prime Minister was to baffle. Why had this sensible technocrat appointed a loon like Suella Braverman? Many baffling moments followed — Rwanda, the war on woke, tax cuts that ran in the face of everything he had stood for as chancellor. So a snap…
Evening Standard · May 24, 2024 General Election 2024: Keir Starmer slams Rishi Sunak's rainy announcement as 'daft' Sir Keir mocked the PM’s announcement amid a clash over his Rwanda plan
The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2024 Rishi Sunak shelves flagship Rwanda and smoking policies before election Keir Starmer says Tory plans ‘up in the air or in the bin’, with proposals to end no-fault evictions also likely to be dropped
Al Jazeera · May 23, 2024 Sunak says no Rwanda deportation flights before election as campaigns begin A Labour victory in July 4 poll could scuttle controversial scheme to send asylum seekers to the African country.
The Independent UK · May 23, 2024 Gloom for Sunak as he admits Rwanda flights won’t take off – and five more Tory MPs quit Rishi Sunak suffered a bruising first day of campaigning with a painful policy admission, MPs quitting, gaffes and the worst polling yet
The Independent UK · May 23, 2024 Rishi Sunak loses £1,000 Rwanda flights bet with Piers Morgan Piers Morgan has revealed where Rishi Sunak’s money should be spent