First flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda blocked from leaving UK

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The first flight transporting asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda has been blocked from taking off after a series of eleventh-hour interventions by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).It was due to leave on Tuesday evening (14 June) after landing at the Ministry of Defence’s airport near Salisbury.Seven people were transported to Boscome Down despite two of the group having had successful injunctions.The controversial plans are a “long-term solution to a longstanding problem” according to Boris Johnson’s spokesperson.Click here to sign up to our newsletters.

It was due to leave on Tuesday evening after landing at the Ministry of Defence’s airport near Salisbury.

 

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There’d have been a Palace Coup against Putin for such a shambolic, humiliating failure of policy. Now her policy is in tatters and the flight’s not going........ let’s start a crowdfunding doodah to get pritipatel trafficked to Rwanda instead.

British courtesy: They ask for asylum in the United Kingdom and are sent to Rwanda.-

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