Rwanda migrant deal ‘won’t be the last’

FURTHER Rwanda-style asylum deals with other countries could be around the corner, a Home Office minister suggested yesterday.

Immigration minister Tom Pursglove told MPs the ‘world-first’ agreement with the East African nation is likely to be duplicated with other countries.

It was already known that the Home

Office was in negotiations with a series of unnamed countries to take migrants, including those who have reached the UK across the Channel.

Mr Pursglove told the Commons home affairs committee as it scrutinised the Rwanda deal yesterday: ‘This is a world first. I doubt that it will be the last of this sort of agreement that will be reached involving countries around the world.’

The minister also said they will quickly work through legal challenges as the Home Office plots the first removal flight to the capital of Kigali, originally scheduled for this month.