Home Office officials say plane may not take off as lawyers fight challenges from refugee charities
The first flight scheduled to take refugees to Rwanda on Tuesday could be cancelled because of a late flurry of individual legal challenges, government sources have said.
As Home Office lawyers fight two legal challenges from campaigners and charities on Monday, officials within the Home Office have conceded that the plane may not take off because of challenges from lawyers working on behalf of refugees who have been told they will be sent to the east African country.
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