The Latest Breaking News from Rwanda

Reaction to the Government’s Rwanda plan is splashed across some of the Saturday papers.

The Cabinet minister is said to have been forced to overrule civil service concerns about the asylum proposal.

Gillian Triggs, assistant high commissioner at UNHCR, says plan is ‘symbolic gesture’ that will prove unworkable

Sending asylum seekers to Rwanda will cause punch ups at airports, says minister

Letter: Rabbis and members of Britain’s Jewish community call on the government to abandon its policy proposal and fulfil its duty to protect, not punish, those fleeing persecution

An interview with the Minister for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration Tom Pursglove got rather heated on Friday's Good Morning Britain

The UNHCR said it ‘strongly condemns’ the plan to send migrants who arrive in Britain unlawfully, to Africa.

The UNHCR and human rights groups have voiced their opposition to a deal signed bewteen London and Kigali that would see thousands of illegal migrants in the UK resettled in Rwanda, or returned to their country of origin.

Senior Tories David Davis and Andrew Mitchell also raise concerns over scheme