Ministers will “get cracking straight away” if the courts determine that it’s lawful to send illegal immigrants to Rwanda, the UK’s Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Oliver Dowden said on Sunday.
It comes as Home Secretary Suella Braverman expanded the two governments’ refugee resettlement deal to include all illegal immigrants during her weekend visit in Rwanda.
Defending the deal on Sunday, Dowden said the Conservative government is “being forced to do it” in order to deter dangerous people smuggling via the English Channel.
But Labour’s shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy dismissed the policy as a”stunt” that’s “unethical, unworkable,” saying the government should invest resources in a specialist National Crime Agency cell and in speeding up asylum processing….