PM blames Labour peers for blocking bill but says parliament will sit ‘for as long as it takes’ to pass legislation this evening
For months journalists have been asking No 10 if the government has found a private company willing to provide planes to take asylum seekers to Rwanda.
At his press conference today Rishi Sunak finally provided a clear answer in an opening statement that contained quite a lot of detail intended to show that No 10 does think it can get regular fights leaving later this year and that it is not just planning just the odd flight with a handful of passengers “here or there” .
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