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30 Apr 2024

Sunak ‘not interested’ in accepting returned asylum seekers from Ireland

Foreign Affairs Correspondent

Some of the missing asylum seekers we heard about earlier could be in Ireland, where politicians have raised questions over the number of people arriving from the UK to avoid deportation to Rwanda.

Today, the Irish cabinet approved emergency legislation to return asylum seekers to the UK, who’ve arrived through Northern Ireland.

But Rishi Sunak has said he is “not interested” in accepting them back.