Priti Patel: Rwanda plan critics ‘fail to offer their own solutions’

UK home secretary attacks critics of plan to give unauthorised asylum seekers one-way tickets to African country

Priti Patel has defended plans to send unauthorised asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda, saying critics of the scheme have failed to offer any alternative solution to the migration crisis.

The proposal, announced last week, has been widely condemned as inhumane, illegal, unworkable and prohibitively expensive. Critics have included Conservative MPs and peers, the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) and a former and the current archbishop of Canterbury, who said, in his Easter Sunday sermon, that the scheme does not stand the judgment of God".