New Rwanda deportation plan not about getting ‘cheap or quick popularity,’ James Cleverly insists – UK politics live

At his press conference in Kigali James Cleverly, the home secretary, said the government was not trying to send asylum seekers to Rwanda as a means of gaining “cheap or quick popularity”. (See 1.49pm.) He said:

The UK and Rwanda are working on this because it is important, not because it is necessarily easy or that it buys you cheap or quick…