Prime Minister’s Questions – 15/06 – Rwanda, Northern Ireland Protocol controversies
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The PM will face off with Labour’s Keir Starmer today at this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions – with the government’s Rwanda plan likely to be top of the agenda.
The i says Around 260 people crossed the Channel in small boats on Tuesday despite the Government’s claims that the threat of deportation to Rwanda would act as a deterrent.
The Independent says The UK’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has inspired fresh waves of racist and bigoted language on social media, public figures have warned.
The Guardian says Controversy surrounding the government policy of flying asylum seekers to Rwanda has gathered in intensity amid the countdown to the first deportation flight.
BBC News says the first flight due to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was cancelled minutes before take-off after legal rulings on Tuesday evening.
The Independent says the foreign secretary has insisted the government’s policy to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda is “completely moral” after the Church of England’s senior bishops condemned the plan.
The Guardian says Liz Truss says Rwanda flights policy is ‘completely moral’ amid backlash and criticism from royals and Church officials.
BBC News says three more people due to be on the first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda are planning legal challenges before take-off later on Tuesday.
The Metro says Sir Keir Starmer is being investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over potential breaches of rules on earnings and gifts.
The Guardian says concerns are mounting that children wrongly assessed as adults by the Home Office could end up being offshored to Rwanda.
The Metro says A Government minister has insisted that a first deportation flight taking refugees to Rwanda will go ahead next week, despite last-ditch attempts to stop it.
The Sun says PRINCE Charles and Boris Johnson are likely to meet in Rwanda after the migrants row.
Daily Mirror says A divisive Home Office flight to Rwanda tomorrow now faces taking barely 10 asylum seekers – if it takes off at all, it is understood.
BBC News says The Court of Appeal is set to decide later whether to allow the first Home Office flight to depart to Rwanda with asylum seekers.
The Independent says care workers are calling in sick because they cannot afford fuel to drive their cars to look after people in their homes, a union leader has said.
Sky News says thousands of new school places are to be created in England – particularly for children in disadvantaged areas and for those with special needs.
The controversial Rwanda plan is set to see the first group of migrants be flown to Rwanda under a new scheme from the British government.
The Metro says Boris Johnson will set out plans for lower-paid workers to be able to use their housing benefits to buy their homes and an extension of the right to buy for housing association tenants.
The Metro says Cigarettes could be phased out from the market altogether by slowly increasing the age they can be bought.
The Independent says bosses at YouGov suppressed publication of a poll during the 2017 election campaign because it was “too positive about Labour”, a former manager at the pollster has claimed.
Sky News says the cost of filling the average family car with petrol is tipped to exceed £100 for the first time, when industry figures are released later on Thursday.
The Independent says the cost of filling up a typical family car with petrol could exceed £100 as soon as Thursday, according to the RAC motoring group.
Sky News says Boris Johnson will announce new measures to help people to get on to the property ladder during a speech in which he pledges to hard-pressed UK households that “things will get better”.
Boris Johnson survived the confidence vote, but only narrowly – so what does the future look like for the PM?