This is not offshore processing, it is a one-way ticket to Kigali, writes John Rentoul
Priti Patel’s difficulty has been to find somewhere that would accept asylum-seekers, but now she has not only found somewhere, she has changed the policythought it was a bit strange when Priti Patel, the home secretary, said, “Australia is not comparable”, at the news conference in Kigali where she announced the deal with Rwanda to take asylum seekers from the UK.
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