Nearly 45,000 migrants have entered UK since Rwanda deal was introduced, evaluation exhibits
Nearly 45,000 folks have arrived within the UK on small boats for the reason that authorities signed its "world-first" deal to ship asylum seekers to Rwanda, new evaluation exhibits.A evaluate of presidency figures by the Press Association exhibits that since 1 January, virtually 5,000 folks have crossed the Channel into the UK, together with greater than 1,000 within the final week alone.
A yr in the past in the present day, the federal government - then led by Boris Johnson - introduced the cope with the east African nation. But twelve months on, no flights have taken off resulting from authorized challenges lodged in opposition to the coverage.In November, it was confirmed the federal government had spent at the least £140m on the programme thus far. The first deportation ...