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A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, following a small boat incident in the Channel
THERESA MAY has become the latest senior Tory to speak out against Priti Patel’s asylum deal with Rwanda.
Speaking in the Commons today, the architect of Britain’s hostile environment policy told her successor as home secretary that she did not support the plan to send asylum-seekers 4,000 miles to the central African country on the grounds of “legality, practicality and efficacy.”
The former prime minister urged Ms Patel to disclose the criteria for sending people to Rwanda and provide evidence that the widely condemned proposals will not lead to an increase in the trafficking of women and children.
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
