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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Sending asylum seekers who arrive in the UK illegally to Rwanda is a key plank of Mr Sunak's pledge to stop small boat crossings of the English Channel.
Speaking to journalists travelling on his flight to Dubai, Mr Sunak said the next stage would be bringing forward legislation to prove that the central African nation was safe, "thereby making sure there are no more domestic blockers to the proper functioning of this scheme".
But an economic impact assessment prepared for the Illegal Migration Act estimated that removing an individual to a third country, such as Rwanda, would cost £63,000 more than keeping them in the UK.
But more than 20, including former senior cabinet minister Damian Green, chair of the One Nation group of Conservative MPs, have written to Mr Sunak urging him not to renege on the UK's human rights commitments.
Sir Bob Neill, Tory chair of the Commons justice committee, told the Financial Times: "Many Conservative voters in traditional seats are uneasy with picking fights with the country's institutions and want to keep to the treaties we have entered into."
Government lawyers have warned that instructing the courts to ignore the ECHR risks opening up further avenues for migrants to challenge the legality of deportation flights, on the basis that it would breach Britain's convention obligations.
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