This innovative approach – driven by our common humanitarian impulse and made possible by Brexit freedoms – will provide safe and legal avenues for asylum, while disrupting the gang business model because it means that economic migrants asylum system will not be allowed to remain in the UK, while those in real need will be adequately protected, including through access to legal services upon arrival in Rwanda, and given the opportunity to build a new life in this dynamic country, with the support of the funding we provide. The agreement we have made has no ceiling and Rwanda will have the capacity to resettle tens of thousands of people in the coming years… We are confident that our new immigration partnership fully complies with our international legal obligations, but we still expect this to be challenged in the courts, even if this country is seen as a soft touch on illegal immigration by some of the partners. us, it’s precisely because we have such a formidable army of politically motivated lawyers who for years have done their job of preventing departures and frustrating the government. So I know that this system will not come into force overnight.
