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Priti Patel shouts out during the Platinum Jubilee concert, taking place in front of Buckingham Palace, London, Saturday June 4, 2022
PRITI PATEL must now abandon her shameful Rwanda policy entirely, human rights groups have demanded, after the first flight was grounded in an 11th-hour reprieve.
Campaigners vowed today to continue fighting the inhumane offshoring policy, declaring that they had “won the battle, but not the war” against the Home Secretary’s bid to send asylum-seekers on a one-way ticket to the east African nation.
The flight was grounded mere minutes before it was due to take off late on Tuesday after an intervention by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
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
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
