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1. Priti Patel 'overruled' concerns of top Home Office civil servant over Rwanda asylum plan

Sat Apr 16, 2022, 05:18 AM

Apr 2022

The Home Secretary has issued a rare "ministerial direction" to overrule concerns of a top civil servant regarding plans to ship some asylum seekers to Rwanda, it is reported.

It is understood Home Office civil servants raised concerns that the plan would not deliver value for money.

Multiple reports have surfaced that Priti Patel shot down those concerns and issued a ministerial direction to overrule them.
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The UN refugee agency blasted the move as "unacceptable" and claimed the plans breached international and refugee law.

Assistant secretary-general Gillian Triggs also questioned whether it would act as a long-term deterrent, given Israel’s attempt to do something similar in Rwanda with Eritrean and Sudanese incomers saw the refugees “leave the country and start the process all over again”.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/priti-patel-overruled-concerns-top-080619620.html

And when David Davis and Andrew Mitchell call it “immoral”, “impractical”, and involving “astronomic” costs, you know it's evil.

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Priti Patel 'overruled' concerns of top Home Office civil servant over Rwanda asylum plan muriel_volestrangler Apr 2022 #1

My question is, why Rwanda? Why not the Isle of Mann? or the Channel Islands? mitch96 Apr 2022 #2

It would upset them; but also, the UK government is responsible for foreign policy for them muriel_volestrangler Apr 2022 #3