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Failed asylum seeker volunteering to go to Rwanda shows it is a safe country, says Badenoch

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The fact a failed asylum seeker volunteered to go to Rwanda demonstrates that claims the country is not safe are "untrue", Kemi Badenoch has said.
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Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch defends Rwanda scheme as the first asylum seeker is sent under a voluntary removals programme. She says the migrant’s choice to leave the UK voluntarily proves “the deterrent is working”. Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn...

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