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Former home secretary criticises PM’s Rwanda asylum bill saying it should ‘totally exclude international law’

In his LBC interview this morning Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary, played down the significance of Robert Jenrick’s resignation last night as immigration minister over the Rwanda bill. He said:

I don’t think it’s as big a story as is being made.

I generally don’t like anybody resigning from my party … [but] when I was Boris’s chief whip pretty much everybody did, so maybe I have a sense of scale and proportion that others don’t.

Continue reading… The Guardian Read More Former home secretary criticises PM’s Rwanda asylum bill saying it should ‘totally exclude international law’In his LBC interview this morning Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary, played down the significance of Robert Jenrick’s resignation last night as immigration minister over the Rwanda bill. He said:I don’t think it’s as big a story as is being made.I generally don’t like anybody resigning from my party … [but] when I was Boris’s chief whip pretty much everybody did, so maybe I have a sense of scale and proportion that others don’t. Continue reading…