Suella Braverman: No flights before election under PM’s Rwanda plan

Suella Braverman has said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s current Rwanda plan will mean no asylum seekers are flown there before the next election. 

The former home secretary wrote in the Telegraph, saying “tinkering with a failed plan” would not achieve the government’s aims.

Braverman’s article came days after the Supreme Court ruled the Rwanda policy unlawful. 

Just hours later Rishi Sunak announced plans for emergency legislation and a new treaty with Rwanda so that the first flights can leave in the spring.

But Braverman argues a new treaty wouldn’t solve “the fundamental issue” with the plan – the Supreme Cout had decided there was a risk Rwanda could return asylum seekers to countries they had fled from, putting them at risk.