UK Says Flights Deporting Asylum Seekers To Rwanda To Start On July 23
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The policy of sending asylum seekers who arrived in Britain to the East African nation is one of Sunak's flagship policies but legal and parliamentary obstacles have meant it has never got off the ground.
The British government says it intends to begin deporting asylum seekers on July 23, court documents showed on Monday, although the controversial scheme is dependent on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative parties winning the upcoming election.
The policy of sending asylum seekers who arrived in Britain to the East African nation is one of Sunak's flagship policies but legal and parliamentary obstacles have meant it has never got off the ground.
Sunak recently said the deportation flights would not leave before an election on July 4 but he has promised if he wins they would begin soon after, although he is trailing the opposition Labour Party by about 20 points in opinion polls and it has promised to scrap the plan.
