A nightmare verdict for Suella's dream
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The Court of Appeal thwarts Home Secretary Suella Braverman's eye-wateringly expensive Rwanda plan (for now) - cue a government appeal and derision and fury from a number of Tory MPs, some of whom have also been named in the latest Privileges Committee report for their choice language on Twitter and other social media platforms in response to the findings against Boris Johnson a couple of weeks ago.
And why are there riots on the streets of Paris? We talk to writer Nabila Ramdani who's reporting on the streets.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | I encourage all of my critics to actually visit Rwanda before they cast aspersions and throw around incredibly prejudiced and |
| 0:26.1 | snobbish opinions about what this beautiful country has to offer. Yeah, that was Suella Braverman, |
| 0:32.3 | the Home Secretary back on the 19th of March, talking about the beautiful country, Rwanda. |
| 0:38.8 | Today, some rather significant people disagreed with her analysis of the safety of the place. |
| 0:45.8 | There are substantial grounds for believing that there is a real risk that persons sent to Rwanda |
| 0:52.0 | will be returned to their home countries, |
| 0:54.9 | where they face persecution or other inhumane treatment |
| 0:57.9 | when in fact they have a good claim for asylum. |
| 1:01.7 | That was the Court of Appeals ruling on Swellabravmans, the government's Rwanda policy, |
| 1:08.6 | their signature Rwanda policy, Rishi Sunak's solution to the |
| 1:13.6 | small boats crisis in the English Channel. They were saying that it was unlawful, that Rwanda is not |
| 1:20.5 | a safe country. It leaves that signature policy in tatters. But is that the last word that we are going to hear on the Rwanda |
| 1:29.7 | policy? Is it dead and buried? No, there's still a little way to go. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:39.8 | The news agents. It's John. It's Lewis. |
| 1:57.5 | And later in the podcast, we're going to be going to France to try and find out what is happening there with the social unrest following the shooting dead of a teenager in a car who refused to stop for police. And the unrest is just fanning out across cities and towns across the country. |
| 2:04.0 | Yeah, but first we're going to dig into, as we were saying, the Court of Appeals verdict. |
| 2:09.2 | And look, you're probably familiar with this policy. Everyone talks about it as being |
| 2:13.3 | Suella Brabman's policy. It is, of course, famously her dream to see the planes with asylum seekers |
| 2:18.9 | leave the UK for Rwanda. But of course, it's actually got a much longer vintage than that. |
| 2:23.9 | It was Pretty Patel's policy when she was Home Secretary. It was Boris Johnson's policy when he |
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