Revealed: The true legal bill for Britain's Rwanda scheme
New documents I've obtained show Home Office has spent more than £2.1m fighting legal challenges to UK government's "unlawful" Rwanda policy
Rwanda is back in the news, with Rishi Sunak promising emergency legislation to allow Britain to deport refugees to Rwanda. The Supreme Court has already found that the scheme is “unlawful”.
Last month, I revealed that the UK government had spent more than £1.4m fighting legal challenges to its policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda.
That figure was…
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