Rwanda

A car burns in Middlesbrough during violence and disorder on Sunday

No return to anti-asylum agenda which panders to racism and far right Ian Swanson

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Rwanda bill was passed, despite fears of a Tory rebellion.

Force asylum seekers to move to Stoke, that will stop the boats - Vladimir McTa...

‘Stop the boats’ is an empty election slogan, says Ian Murray

Focus needs to be on deterring the people smugglers - Ian Murray

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak welcomes the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, to 10 Downing Street, for talks last week. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Rwanda Bill shows Tory disdain for humanity and the rule of law - Angus Robertso...

Suzie Sweet ran Balamory’s village shop along with maths whizz Penny Pocket who could have counted Blair’s refugees

What's the story in Balamory? Tony Blair had lost the plot - Vladimir McTavish

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer during Prime Ministers' Questions in the House of Commons on December 13

Let’s make 2024 the year of change - Ian Murray

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds a press conference following the Supreme Court's Rwanda policy judgement, at Downing Street on November 15, 2023 (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Even 17th century Britain welcomed refugees - Alex Cole-Hamilton

Rishi Sunak has made his 'stop the boats' pledge a defining issue of his premiership - but the Rwanda policy, designed to halt the Channel crossings, has become a cause of division. Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire.

‘Stop the boats’ pledge could now sink Rishi Sunak

Home Secretary James Cleverly during a press conference with Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs Vincent Biruta after the signing of a new treaty in Kigali

Cleverly doesn’t begin to describe the Tories’ bonkers Rwanda policy - Vladimir ...

Migrants crossing the Channel in small boats will be made a big issue at the election - but they account for a tiny proportion of the immigration total. Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Record figures show how essential migrants are to UK

David Cameron is back in politics after a seven-year gap

Scotland being failed by two governments - Ian Murray

Exhausted migrants in Kent. Credit: HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images

Government plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is ruled unlawful

Three judges have overturned a ruling, which previously said Rwanda could be considered a ‘safe third country’.

Government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda ruled ‘unlawful’

Boris Johnson ‘squared up’ to King Charles over Rwanda policy, according to former press chief

Boris Johnson ‘squared up’ to Charles over ‘appalling’ Rwanda policy

Home Secretary Suella Braverman laughs as she tours a building site on the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda, where deported migrants are planned to be housed (Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Braverman's laughter at Rwandan 'internment' camp was shocking – Angus Robertson

Suella Braverman listens on as prime minister Rishi Sunak announces the Illegal Migration Bill

Deportation flights to Rwanda could be started “by the summer”
The controversial Rwanda deportation flight programme has yet to see any flights depart the UK but the UK Government has suggested they could begin as early as this summer
Patrick Hollis

Home Secretary Suella Braverman says it is her dream to see a plane full of refugees take off for Rwanda. Picture: Niklas Halle'n /AFP.

Braverman's talk of refugee 'invasion' shows how low Britain has sunk

Readers' letters: Patel’s cruel policy is a power grab

Like the other candidates to be Conservative leader, Liz Truss will not scrap the plan to send migrants to Rwanda (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Tory leadership race reveals just how foul the Conservatives really are

Sarah Boyak is Scottish Labour's external affairs spokesperson

Think again on Rwanda plan, say MSPs

An estimated 150 people have died crossing the Channel in the past five years (Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)

Rwanda policy is a betrayal of Refugee Convention that UK helped draw up

The grounded Rwanda deportation flight EC-LZO Boeing 767 at Boscombe Down Air Base

Readers' Letters

Demonstrators hold placards as they protest against the Rwanda asylum plan outside the High Court in London yesterday

Rwanda asylum plan: decades of racist hostility have led us to here - Lo...

General Synod members backing the Thursdays In Black campaign, a global movement urging an end to violence against women.

Church leader condemns Rwanda deportations

Home Secretary Priti Patel introduced the controversial new Rwanda plan last month

Age dispute could see teenage boys deported to Rwanda immigration centre

Ncuti Gatwa, cast as the new Doctor Who, pictured at the BAFTA Television awards on May 8, 2022 (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images)

All you need to know about Ncuti Gatwa, the new Doctor Who

Lorna Slater (Green)

Racist Home Offices hits new low on refugees - Lorna Slater
Even by the terrible standards of the institutionally racist Home Office, its latest proposal to send refugees to Rwanda to be “processed” is surely a disgraceful new low.
Lorna Slater

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby is far from the only senior clergy member to have condemned the UK Government's plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda (Picture: Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

UK's Rwanda asylum-seeker plan reeks of racial prejudice – Angus Robertson

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, following a small boat incident in the Channel. Under a scheme designed to crack down on migrants landing on British shores after crossing the Channel in small boats, the UK intends to provide those deemed to have arrived unlawfully with a one-way ticket to Rwanda. Picture date: Friday April 15, 2022.

Sending migrants to Rwanda ‘a cataclysmic waste’ of taxpayers’ money, says SNP

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. Picture date: Wednesday March 30, 2022.

Ian Blackford brands government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda “evil”

The Scottish Government is providing funding of £1.5 million to help expand access to coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics in three African countries.

£1.5m to boost Covid vaccine access in three African countries

Eoghan Mackie of The Challenges Group (left) and Jack Allan of Today have joined forces to work on projects in Africa. Picture: contributed.

Edinburgh-based media agency launching African offices on back of new tie-up

Service and installation manager Kris Aitchison with a packaged SolarisKit collector. Picture: contributed.

Dundee start-up fires up production of Rwanda-focused solar power device

Certain destinations have been banned from travelling to the UK in order to stop the spread of the new South African coronavirus variant (Photo: Shutterstock)

More destinations added to the mandatory hotel quarantine list - including Dubai

Inge Auerbacher will speak live from New York as part of Edinburgh's online event

Live-streamed Holocaust Memorial Day event in Edinburgh will feature survivor sp...

A shot of the lab in Rwanda that featured in the field trial. Pic: Supplied by University of Edinburgh

'Game-changing' new approach could make Covid testing 20 times cheaper

Phil Purves, right, accepts a donation to help towards the costs of the trip to Rwanda

Footballers had such a ball in Rwanda that they’re going back

Edinburgh spends less per school pupil than most other areas of Scotland. Picture: PA

Helen Martin: Tick box exercises can't hide Edinburgh's big problems

Genocide survivor speaks out

Volunteers step forward

Battle to rebuild lives damaged by violence in Africa

Ticket sales fund Rwanda

Baby monkey has a ‘big personality’

Aid agencies £2.2m richer to help poor