Home secretary becomes third minister in less than two years to sign deal with African state as he decrees it’s now safe and legally sound – but Rishi Sunak faces Commons revolt over planned new law

Centrist Tories want PM to stick by UK’s human rights obligations while those on the right want new bill to override them

 

James Cleverly has signed a new treaty with rwanda in an attempt to overcome the legal block on the government’s policy of sending asylum seekers to the African country. The foreign secretary arrived in Kigali on Tuesday 5 December and told reporte ...

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Ministers want to make their plan to send asylum seekers to Africa work - but nothing is certain.

The home secretary says rwanda is committed to the safety of anyone sent there as part of the government's migration deal.

The home secretary says his new asylum treaty is not about getting ‘cheap or quick popularity’

Home secretary also manages to keep straight face as he claims government is not ‘in search of easy answers or quick publicity’

Home Secretary James Cleverly has signed a fresh treaty with rwanda to help get Rishi Sunak’s thwarted asylum deal off the ground. He traveled to Kigali, rwanda, to sign the agreement on Tuesday 5 December, in a bid to make the deal legally waterti ...

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Ministers have given more than £140m to rwandan government in hope of sending asylum seekers to east Africa

The home secretary says rwanda is committed to the safety of anyone sent there as part of the government's migration deal.

Watch again as James Cleverly holds a press conference in rwanda on Tuesday 5 December, after he signed a fresh treaty with the nation, amid efforts to get the government’s stalled asylum deal off the ground.

James Cleverly has arrived in rwanda to sign a new treaty to help revive the Government’s stalled asylum deal. The foreign secretary travelled to Kigali as Rishi Sunak bids to make the plan to send migrants to the African nation legally watertight ...

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It comes after Mr Cleverly laid out his five-point plan to cut immigration, which included banning care workers from bringing their families over to the UK and raising the minimum salary required for a skilled worker visa.

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Home Secretary James Cleverly has arrived in rwanda to sign a new treaty for the government's asylum plan. It is part of Rishi Sunak's mission to make the deal to send migrants there legally watertight following the Supreme Court's ruling against the ...