Fifty people who entered the UK illegally have become the first group to be notified of the government’s intention to send them to Rwanda, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday.
They were told to produce legal representation within two weeks or be shipped to the east African country, according to the Daily Mail.
Making the revelation in a wide-ranging interview with the publication, the prime minister said the government is expecting “a lot of legal opposition” but will “dig in for the fight.”
“There’s going to be a lot of legal opposition from the types of firms that for a long time have been taking taxpayers’ money to mount these sorts of cases and to thwart the will of the people, the will of Parliament. We’re ready for that,” Johnson told the paper.
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