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UK prime minister Rishi Sunak. Despite a series of delays and legal challenges to the Rwanda scheme, some in the EU are keen to copy the idea (Photo: Flickr - Downing street 10)

UK's Rwanda asylum deal set to collapse without a single deportation

The UK’s much-touted migration deal with Rwanda is set to collapse without a single asylum seeker being deported to the east African country, after prime minister Rishi Sunak confirmed on Thursday (23 May) that no flights will take off before the general election on 4 July.  

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak. Despite a series of delays and legal challenges to the Rwanda scheme, some in the EU are keen to copy the idea (Photo: Flickr - Downing street 10)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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