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Rwanda will be able to take 'thousands' of migrants as soon as removals flights begin, Suella Braverman said last night.

The Home Secretary, who arrives in Kigali today to 'reinforce commitment' to the asylum deal, attacked Labour and other critics who claim the scheme will only be able to take a few hundred Channel migrants.

The Rwandan government will be able to bring large numbers of beds on-stream as soon as removals flights from the UK are cleared for take-off, Mrs Braverman said. She also described Rwanda as 'one of the world's safest countries' ahead of a series of top-level meetings to discuss next stages of the scheme.

She added said: 'The suggestion that Rwanda can only take 200 people is completely false narrative peddled by critics who want to scrap the deal.

'Rwanda has the capacity to accommodate tens of thousands of people, and can quickly stand this up once flights begin.'