Rwanda flights will not take off before general election, says Sunak

Rishi Sunak says deportation flights will leave in July if he is reelected as prime minister

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Rishi Sunak has said deportation flights to Rwanda will not leave before the election, saying the scheme would be “up and running” if he was re-elected prime minister.

In his first interviews after calling the snap poll, the prime minister said the flights would leave in July, with the caveat: “If I am reelected as prime minister on 5 July, these flights will go.”