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Sunak under pressure over payment to Rwanda
The Morning Standard
|December 09, 2023
BRITISH PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak was under pressure on Friday to explain why Britain has paid Rwanda 240 million pounds as part of a blocked asylum plan, without a single person being sent to the East African country.
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The total is almost twice the 140 million pounds that Britain previously said it had handed to the Rwandan government under a deal struck in April 2022.
Under the agreement, migrants who reach Britain across the English Channel would be sent to Rwanda, where their asylum claims would be processed and, if successful, they would stay.
This story is from the December 09, 2023 edition of The Morning Standard.
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