Ryan Shorthouse, Executive Chair of Bright Blue, comments:
“The Rwanda asylum agreement has been an expensive failure. It has been deemed by the Supreme Court to be unlawful and, as a country that respects the rule of law, the UK Government must now move on urgently to find alternative ways of reducing the flow of irregular migrants crossing the Channel.
ENDS
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