A win on Rwanda will not automatically translate into victory for Rishi Sunak

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The prime minister will - if the bill finally gains royal assent - be able to stand at a podium and say that he was true to his word.

It has been two years since Boris Johnson first proposed sending asylum seekers arriving in the UK to be sent to Rwanda to have their claims processed. Since then the government has spent £240m trying to get the scheme off the ground, argued - and lost - its case to send migrants to Kigali in the highest court in the land and seen since the 1 April 2022 more than 76,000 people have arrived in the UK on small boats.

The prime minister meanwhile has doubled down on his 'whatever it takes' rhetoric, saying earlier this month that controlling illegal immigration is 'more important' than membership of the European Convention on Human Rights , in a strong hint that he is ready to ignore Britain's international obligations to enable Rwanda flights to take off.

 

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