Rishi Sunak kicked off his election campaign in Ilkeston, central England, on Thursday, saying he expected to see flights taking asylum seekers to Rwanda ‘by July’.
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In a downscaling of plans to begin the flights in early June, Sunak said they would start in July, adding the caveat: ‘If I am re-elected as prime minister on 5 July, these flights will go’
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