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Home Secretary Priti Patel speaks during the Conservative Party Spring Forum at Winter Gardens, Blackpool, in March 2022
HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel sparked fresh anger today after accusing her Rwanda asylum deal critics of failing to provide their own solutions to tackling trafficking gangs.
In a joint article in The Times with Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta, Ms Patel defended plans to transfer asylum-seekers on a one-way ticket to the east African country for processing.
Claiming the proposals would help end the “deadly trade” of people trafficking, she wrote: “We are taking bold and innovative steps and it’s surprising that those institutions that criticise the plans fail to offer their own solutions.
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
