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Migrants could delay their deportation to Rwanda by more than a year, according to a leaked Home Office assessment of the risk posed by individual legal claims scuppering flights.

Exclusive: Documents also show asylum seekers could delay removals for a year by making individual claims

Libya on Tuesday repatriated nearly 1,000 migrants from Egypt and Nigeria who had been staying in the North African country illegally, officials and AFP journalists said.According to International Organization for Migration figures, there were more than 700,000 migrants -- mostly from Niger and Egypt -- in Libya between May and June this year. nd/ezz/fka/srm/dv

Gary Lineker has sparked a fresh BBC impartiality row by leading a campaign against the Government’s Rwanda Bill.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is keeping his eyes on his party’s poll numbers, which aren’t looking good as the opposition Labour party continues to surge higher than the governing Conservative party.

We are a reasonable and compassionate country. When desperate people look to us in their hour of need, we have shown, time and again, that we answer the call. But that does not mean we can or will accept mass illegal migration.

Britain is a dynamic, generous and outward-looking country. That has, and always will be, the case. We have led the world in giving asylum to those fleeing war, abuse and torture. Most recently we have taken in thousands of people through our Ukraine, Hong Kong, Afghanistan and Syria schemes.

A US judge approved a settlement that bars US officials from separating migrant families that illegally cross the US southern border, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a press release.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte discussed a range of issues including the Middle East, Ukraine and illegal migration