Rwanda sues UK over abandoned asylum plan as Brits could be handed huge bill | Politics | News
Rwanda is suing the UK for damages that could be worth more than £50 million after Sir Keir Starmer’s Conservative Party abandoned its migrant transport deal with the country. As one of his first acts after his victory, the Prime Minister canceled an agreement under which asylum seekers would be flown from Britain to Kigali, housed there and then put their names forward for asylum. People deported from the UK would first be taken to Hope Hostel, which has declared itself ready to accept them in April 2024.
A total of £290 million was paid to Rwanda by the UK before the deal was cancelled. In November, the African country’s justice minister and attorney general, Dr. It was revealed that Emmanuel Ugirashebuja had filed a “notice of arbitration” listing him as the “representative of the plaintiffs.” The case filed by Rwanda is being heard in the Permanent Court of Arbitration based in the Netherlands.
It was reported that the documents included the Home Office’s director of immigration and borders, Dan Hobbs, as a representative and that the ministry gave instructions to Ben Juratowitch from the London-based Essex Court Chambers.
Rwanda deal condemned as “waste” Labour’s 2024 general election manifesto. It added that the scheme “already costs hundreds of millions of pounds” and “may only appeal to less than one per cent of incoming asylum seekers”. The document said “Unable to Work”.
“Chaos across the Channel is accompanied by chaos at home. The Tories’ broken laws have created a ‘permanent backlog’ of tens of thousands of asylum seekers staying in hotels indefinitely, costing taxpayers millions of pounds every week.”
Rwanda’s move was described as a “disaster” by the Conservative Party’s shadow home secretary, Chris Philp.
he said Mail: “The agreement was in place to allow the first flights to begin, and to abandon it was an act of borderline treason.
“This legal action means the British taxpayer now faces a huge bill for Labour’s incompetence.”
