In the headlines
Male migrants crossing the Channel to Britain will be flown 4,000 miles to Rwanda, where they will be unable to apply for asylum in the UK, under a new trial scheme unveiled by the government today. It’s a “bold and imaginative” plan, says Stephen Glover in the Daily Mail – though Rwanda’s dismal human rights record “makes me queasy”. The “worst is to come” for Boris Johnson over Partygate, says the Daily Mirror: the PM is expected to get at least three more fines for attending lockdown-breaking bashes. Yesterday Lord Wolfson, a justice minister, became the first member of the government to resign over the fines. Pet-loving boffins have found that dogs on vegan diets are healthier than their meat-eating peers, says The Times. “Maybe butchers’ dogs aren’t so fit after all.”