NEW: I understand Dame Diana Johnson has appointed David Neal as an adviser to the Home Affairs Select Committee she chairs.

Neal was sacked as chief borders inspector by James Cleverly for leaking his unpublished reports to the media.

This will go down very badly in govt…

This has become all too normalised. Govt will say proves necessity of Rwanda scheme. It proves action has to be taken. But will Rwanda work? There's never been any evidence that it will. And always seemed to me to have been devised by people who had never talked to those crossing

Caseworkers aren't even trained yet! Not one person has been identified. Not one airline is on board. Absolute joke. #r4today

Andrew Mitchell MP fails to declare that he has received tens of thousands in consultancy fees from the Rwandan Government….

'We are reasonable people trying to do a reasonable thing,' says Rishi Sunak, who plans to override international law and a decision by the UK's own Supreme Court, in order to deport refugees and victims of modern slavery to a brutal dictatorship

“If you look at the statistics, Kigali is arguably safer than London” says the Deputy Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell.

The Rwandan police opened fire on asylum seekers in 2018, killing 12.

He insists there are functioning safe passages for Afghans to the UK through ARAP. Wrong. In reality, countless thousands of Afghans have been let down and betrayed by Britain. But even if it was true, you could then easily accept the amendment.

“I was privy to some inhumane conversations using the words ‘let’s boomerang them’, ‘bloody migrants’, ‘let’s take them in Cat C and treat them as prisoners.’”

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It beggars belief that the Prime Minister could send Afghans who served alongside British troops to Rwanda.

Today the Lords have voted yet again to try to stop this from happening.

Tonight Luke Pollard MP and I have written to Ministers urging them to do the right thing.

Sorry Home Office, Costa Rica is out.

Suella Braverman, who repeatedly tried to ban protests she personally didn't approve of, suddenly gets concerned about politicians trying to 'undermine free speech'

This week, the UK will likely pass a law saying Rwanda is 'safe' to deport asylum seekers to. Meanwhile, I was recently denied boarding on a flight to Rwanda, presumably because of my journalism on the treatment of refugees there. (THREAD) 1/

Another betrayal, which will weigh heavily on those in and from Sudan: the Foreign Office has been negotiating with the RSF, the paramilitary group accused of war crimes and ethnic cleansing.

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Today's Times reports of leaked docs (euphemism for govt briefing) which outlines govt attempts to find new countries, including Armenia, Ivory Coast & Costa Rica, to enter into a new #Rwanda style scheme to off-shore asylum seekers. Some countries have declined to get involved.

Today is a dark day for families as the new spouse visa rules including a higher Minimum Income Requirement of £29k come into force.
This is an attack on everyone’s human right to a family life #The29kPriceTagOnLove #familiesbelongtogether #LoveInLimbo
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🚨 From today, the minimum income threshold for spouse visas rises from £18600 to £29,000 - pricing 50% of the UK population out of cross-border love.

In early 2025, the threshold will increase to £38,700 - around 70% of the UK population don't earn this.