Under the policy, anyone entering the uk illegally, could be sent to rwanda, with no limit on numbers. The government hopes the policy will stop people trying to make the dangerous crossing on small boats. The plan has been strongly criticised by human rights groups, and the Uk Supreme Court ruled the policy was unlawful. Here is mr sunak setting out a timeline for his plan. The first flight will leave in 10 12 weeks. Now, of course that is later than we wanted, but we have always been clear that processing will take time and if labour peers had not spent weeks holding up the bill in the House Of Lords to try to block these flights altogether, we would have begun this process weeks ago. Lets speak to our Political Correspondent in westminster, peter saull. Peter, its been months of this being blocked, how different is this evening going to be . Being blocked, how different is this evening going to be . Someone told me earlier on tonight evening going to be . Someone told me earlier on
Week of passover so a lot of the government are on holiday and its very quiet injerusalem. But theres been reportedly another senior generalfrom the central been reportedly another senior general from the Central Command whose reportedly tendered his resignation tonight. These are the most seniorfigures so resignation tonight. These are the most senior figures so far to have resigned after the terrible events of October 7th when Armed Hamas gunmen stormed through the Gaza Border Defence and 1200 people, mostly israeli civilians, were killed. There have been calls for political and military figures to be held accountable, but the positions certainly of the prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is that any big inquiry will have to wait until after the war, and i think there will be perhaps an unprecedented inquiry, hopefully most israelis say a public inquiry because they do regard some of the responsibility for the scale of what happened on