22.04.2024, BBC
Deportation flights to Rwanda will take off in summer, Rishi Sunak says
The first flights deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda will take off in 10 to 12 weeks Rishi Sunak has announced - missing his original spring target. The government has already prepared an airfield and secured charter plane slots to ensure flights take off, the PM said. Mr Sunak promised to keep MPs and Lords late into the night on Monday to pass his flagship Rwanda bill. "No ifs, no buts, these flights are going to Rwanda," he said. He told a Downing Street press conference: "The first flight will leave in 10 to 12 weeks. "Of course that is later than we wanted but we have always been clear that processing will take time and if Labour peers had not spent weeks holding up the bill in the House of Lords to try to block these flights altogether we would have begin this process weeks ago." read more
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