The prime minister has said the first deportation flights to Rwanda will leave 'in 10 to 12 weeks', hours before MPs are due to vote on his emergency legislation.
The prime minister has said the first deportation flights to Rwanda will leave 'in 10 to 12 weeks', hours before MPs are due to vote on his emergency legislation. Rishi Sunak said teams across government were 'working flat out to deliver this genuine game changer' - with an airfield on standby and booked commercial charter planes to get the first flights off to the African nation. 'No ifs, not buts, these flights are going to Rwanda,' the prime minister vowed.
After promising that the first flight would take off in 10 to 12 weeks, which he said was later than he would have liked, he took aim at the Labour Party, whom he accused of blocking the bill in the Lords with their series of amendments. Asked by Sky News political editor Beth Rigby whether the bill's likely passage would be a 'moment of success' for him, Mr Sunak replied: 'Success is when the boats have been stopped.
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