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Nick Boles – 2022 Comments on Government’s Plan to Send Asylum Seekers to Rwanda

The comments made by Nick Boles, the former Conservative MP for Grantham and Stamford, on Twitter on 14 April 2022.

There are two ways a a British government could reduce the number of asylum seekers crossing the Channel by boat. One is to nurture good relations with our European neighbours and negotiate a deal like the Dublin Treaty. The other is to spend billions shipping them to Africa.