Priti Patel facing High Court challenges over Rwanda plan for asylum seekers

British Home Secretary Priti Patel (House of Commons)

British Home Secretary Priti Patel is facing High Court challenges over controversial plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

A “world-first” agreement with the east African nation, which will see it receive asylum seekers deemed by the UK to have arrived “illegally” and therefore inadmissible under new immigration rules, was signed earlier this month.