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Home Secretary Priti Patel speaks during the Conservative Party Spring Forum at Winter Gardens, Blackpool, in March 2022
HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel sparked fresh anger today after accusing her Rwanda asylum deal critics of failing to provide their own solutions to tackling trafficking gangs.
In a joint article in The Times with Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta, Ms Patel defended plans to transfer asylum-seekers on a one-way ticket to the east African country for processing.
Claiming the proposals would help end the “deadly trade” of people trafficking, she wrote: “We are taking bold and innovative steps and it’s surprising that those institutions that criticise the plans fail to offer their own solutions.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
