Suella Braverman says UN guilty of ‘hypocrisy’ over Rwanda plan
The Home Office has accused the UN of hypocrisy over its Rwanda deportation plan in a fresh row between the Britain and the UN’S refugee agency.
The UNHCR operates a refugee resettlement scheme that temporarily houses refugees in Gashora in eastern Rwanda. It has also played a key role in the court case appealing against the UK government’s policy to relocate Channel migrants to Rwanda, arguing that the African country is unsafe for asylum seekers.
A Home Office source said: “It seems somewhat hypocritical for the UNHCR to be attacking our Rwanda scheme for pandering to populist tendencies and claiming it’s unworkable while at the same time relocating asylum seekers to the country.”
Danny Kruger, a Conservative MP, said: “If the UNHCR itself can approve
