Priti Patel blames lawyers as she admits Rwanda plan will ‘take time’

Home secretary attacks specialist lawyers' as Labour calls delayed plan little more than a press release

Priti Patel has admitted that it will take time to establish the government's high-profile plan to send people who arrive in the UK without authorisation to Rwanda, amid growing suspicion that it will not solve the migration crisis in the Channel.

In a further attack on the legal profession, the home secretary blamed specialist lawyers" as the main reason for the delays in setting up the scheme.