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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged Monday that flights carrying asylum seekers would take off for Rwanda in July no matter what as MPs were set to return a bill legalising the deportations back to the Lords.

EXCLUSIVE: Official document shows asylum seekers could be jetted to Rwanda before June.

The Prime Minister was meant to get flights off to Rwanda this spring but has now given himself until July

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) has said that there is potential to add the marine sector to the second Nationally Determined Contribution ...

Ligia Noronha, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York Office of UNEP, addressing the meeting on behalf of Inger Andersen, Chief of UNEP, unveils a solution to the energy dilemma, advocating for clean energy access to drive prosperity, while combatting climate change.  

The government has already prepared an airfield and secured charter plane slots to ensure flights take off, the PM said.

The capital of Rwanda, Kigali, is safer than London, deputy foreign minister Andrew Mitchell has claimed. Mr Mitchell made his comments as he urged peers to back down over the government’s deportation bill on Monday (22 April). Mr Mitchell said amendments to the Rwanda bill were not necessary and further “ping pong” between the Lords and the Commons was “not the right way to proceed”. In his interview on Radio 4 Today’s programme, he said: “It is absolutely extraordinary what the R...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced this morning that the first flight will take off in July, but a government briefing paper shows it is actually scheduled to go sooner

The first flights deporting asylum seekers from the United Kingdom (UK) to Rwanda will take off in 10 to 12 weeks. UK prime minister Rishi Sunak […]

By Gavin St PierONCE again, a technical UK legislative drafting tool, which is normally of little interest to few people, other than the drafter and a […]