Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has welcomed Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame to 10 Downing Street. The meeting comes as his country marks 30 years since the Rwanda genocide that killed around 800,000 people. The government continues to grapple with delays to the asylum seeker scheme, which aims to send migrants to Rwanda if they are found to be in the UK illegally.
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Shadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds described a government minister's appearance on Question Time as "incredibly embarrassing" after he appeared to ask if Rwanda and Congo were different countries. When discussing the government policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda, policing minister Chris Philp responded to an audience member’s question during the BBC One programme by asking: “Rwanda is a different country of Congo, isn’t it?”
Mr Reynolds said the Rwanda scheme has caused "significant damage to the reputation of the UK around the world." The government's Rwanda bill, which was passed in parliament last week, says any asylum seeker entering the UK "illegally" after 1 January 2022, from a safe country such as France, could be sent to Rwanda.
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