Cool response in Iceland as Rishi Sunak urges Europe’s leaders to back Rwanda plan

Prime minister uses summit address at Council of Europe in Reykjavik to talk of need to confront illegal migration

Rishi Sunak has sought to convince European leaders to support his plans to detain and remove people to Rwanda - using a summit address to link the lessons" of the Ukraine war to what he said was a need to confront threats such as illegal migration.

Downing Street earlier hailed an agreement reached between Sunak and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, to establish a new working arrangement to strengthen cooperation" between the EU and the UK on migration.