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Former Home Secrtary Suella Braverman
SUELLA BRAVERMAN’S resignation must signal the end of the government’s “cruel and ineffective” Rwanda policy, campaigners have demanded.
The home secretary’s shock departure from the Cabinet after just six weeks in the role has prompted renewed calls for ministers to ditch plans to send asylum-seekers on a one-way ticket to the east African country.
Her replacement, Grant Shapps is now the third home secretary to take the role since the agreement with Rwanda was announced earlier this year.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES