PM to publicly warn peers to back down but treatment of Afghans remains a concern for the Lords
In his Today interview Andrew Mitchell, the deputy foreign secretary, also claimed that Rwanda was “arguably safer than London”.
He said the country had made remarkable progress over the past 30 years. He explained:
Rwanda … has come back from the abyss, a country completely destroyed by the genocide.
It is absolutely extraordinary what the Rwandan government have achieved in all walks of life.
If the UNHCR thinks it’s right and proper and safe to do that, then I think we should be perfectly confident that the British government, in reaching the same conclusion, is also correct.
You’ll have to wait for the prime minister to set that out in the press conference later today.
