Live: UK government appeals for Rwanda deportation plan during Supreme Court hearing

UK government challenges a ruling that its plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful.

The Home Office is challenging a Court of Appeal ruling from June that the UK’s multimillion-pound deal with the east African nation over the processing of asylum claims was unlawful.

Lawyers representing migrants facing deportation to Rwanda have told the Supreme Court that the destination is an “authoritarian, one-party state” with a “woefully deficient” asylum system.

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