The tortuous journey of the UK government’s Rwanda plan

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The tortuous journey of the UK government’s Rwanda plan

Key dates in the Conservatives’ struggle to push through their policy of processing asylum seekers in a third countrySunak’s Rwanda deportations bill will become law after peers back down14 April The then prime minister, Boris Johnson, announces plans to deport those arriving in the UK on small boats to Rwanda for their claims to be processed. The scheme will “prove a very considerable deterrent”, he insists, and Rwanda is “one of the safest cou…