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Rwanda deal: PM’s anti-lawyer rhetoric ‘misleading and dangerous,’ lawyers warn

BORIS JOHNSON’S attack on lawyers challenging the government’s Rwanda plan is dangerous and undermines the rule of law, the Law Society slammed today. 

The legal profession has hit back at the PM after he claimed “liberal-left lawyers” were to blame for delays to plans to deport asylum-seekers to the east African country. 

Mr Johnson insisted the Rwanda plans will go ahead when questioned on legal challenges against the policy, telling reporters on this week: “Of course, there are going to be legal eagles, liberal lawyers, who will try to make this difficult to settle. 

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