UK Migrant Families With Children 'Could be Sent to Rwanda in Future'

Soraya Ebrahimi - National News

Migrant families with children could be sent to Rwanda in future, a Home Office minister has told Parliament.

Defending the controversial policy after it was ruled legal by judges, Lord Simon Murray of Blidworth also said that sending migrants to Rwanda to curb English Channel crossings was neither a punishment nor immoral.

Then-home secretary Priti Patel announced the proposals in April, describing it as a “world-first agreement” to deter people from making the journey across the Channel to the UK.