The House of Lords’ vote to delay the Rwanda Treaty will not prevent the Government getting deportation flights off in the spring, Downing Street has said.
With so many problems at home, it may have seemed that the very worst thing the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak could have done this week was fly off to Davos to spend the week sipping champagne with the world’s plutocrats.
Rishi Sunak has admitted he pushed back on whether the Rwanda deportation scheme was value for money when chancellor, but denied he believed the deterrent would not work.