'Our policy is completely legal and completely moral'. Foreign Secretary trussliz says 'critics' of the government's Rwanda deportation plan need to 'suggest an alternative policy that will work'. KayBurley: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has just been speaking to Niall Paterson on Sky News Breakfast.
Asked about the criticisms from church leaders - who have called the policy"immoral" - the foreign secretary said: As well as re-starting infringement proceedings against the UK, he said the EU would also look at launching further legal action to protect the integrity of the EU single market, as he ruled out renegotiating the trade protocol.The government has appointed a new cost of living business tsar to help support people with rising bills.
After two legal challenges failed, a plane is scheduled to leave for the Rwandan capital of Kigali later, but it is unclear how many asylum seekers will be onboard. Many allege that they are being"played" – that the protocol is being used by Boris Johnson to distract his critics and mollify his core supporters. Legal proceedings now seem inevitable. Relations between Westminster and Brussels, which were already appalling, have just got even worse. Stephen Murphy, Ireland correspondent
You don't have to get far into the 20-page Northern Ireland Protocol Bill to see why this legislation is causing so much of a stink with so many people.
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