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'Unethical and extortionate': Yvette Cooper challenges Priti Patel on Rwanda asylum plan

Guardian, 20 Apr 2022
The home secretary, Priti Patel, was on Tuesday challenged by Labour's Yvette Cooper on the government's new scheme to send people seeking asylum in the UK to Rwanda.
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The shadow home secretary denounced the policy as unworkable and unethical, as well as costly for taxpayers. Britain and Rwanda announced last week they had struck an agreement that will see some people arriving in the UK as stowaways on trucks or in small boats sent 4,000 miles to the east African country, where their asylum claims will be processed and, if successful, they will stay in Rwanda

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