Rishi Sunak sets up Covid-style Cabinet committee for Rwanda flights trends now
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Rishi Sunak has ordered ministers to begin migrant deportation flights to Rwanda within days of the scheme clearings its legal hurdles.
In a highly unusual move, the Prime Minister has established a Covid-style Cabinet committee to ensure that the Rwanda scheme can ‘hit the ground running’ immediately.
The committee, which has been in place for a month, is already meeting twice a week to ensure there are no barriers to deportation flights beginning as soon as the Illegal Migration Bill clears Parliament, probably in September.
One Cabinet source described the preparations for the first flight as ‘extraordinary’.
‘No stone is being left unturned to make sure this goes smoothly,’ the source said. ‘There is really no precedent for a Prime Minister to lead a committee of this sort on the implementation of a Bill has that has not even passed.
Rishi Sunak (pictured today in Washington DC) has ordered ministers to begin migrant deportation flights to Rwanda within days of the scheme clearings its legal hurdles
The Prime Minister hopes the scheme will 'hit the ground running' (Pictured: staff board a plane reported by British media to be first to transport migrants to Rwanda in June 2022)
‘That legislation will effectively ban Channel crossings. The expectation is it will pass in September and you will see flights beginning within days.
‘People arriving on small boats will be detained on barges for a day or so and then put on a plane to Rwanda or
