The Prime Minister says the first flight carrying Asylum Seekers to rwanda will leave in 10 to 12 weeks time come what may. He says an airfield is on standby and charter planes are booked. Rishi sunak had originally promised the first flight would take off this spring, but his timetable now suggests a delay until the summer. He says peers and mps will have to sit through the night tonight if necessary to pass the governments controversial rwanda legislation. Our political correspondent, helen catt is in westminster. Helen. New statistics out this morning show one of the reasons why rishi sunak might be so keen to get those flights off soon, last Year Parliament passed a law that said that some asylum cases could only be dealt with by being removed from the uk. But they cant go to rwanda because the Supreme Court ruled it was unsafe and there are now nearly 52,000 Asylum Seekers whose claims simply cant be dealt with here. So what the government did to try and get around this last year
People who were opposed to the demonstrations were being provocative. Some of the Jewish Community organisations, not the campaign against antisemitism, but others met with the Commissioner Today and others and they said it was a good meeting, that the met said they would take more account of the concerns of the Jewish Community, pay more attention to what their seniorjewish officers and telling them, be more culturally sensitive. But these jewish groups, like the campaign for anti semitism, theyre not calling for Sir Mark Rowley to resign, but they are asking the police and the government to reduce the number of pro palestinian demonstrations. The prime Minister Today said he still had confidence in Sir Mark Rowley, but the met had to work harder to rebuild the trust of the Jewish Community. Rebuild the trust of the Jewish Community rebuild the trust of the jewish communi. ,. , ~ , community. Lucy, thank you very much indeed. The train Drivers Union Aslef has announced another wave of