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This is the best summary I could come up with:
It was April of last year when Priti Patel headed to east Africa to make the case that the UK needed a new tool to drive down illegal immigration: the prospect of migrants being sent to Rwanda.
But here we are in the final month of 2023 and the policy isn't off the ground, even if plenty of airliners with politicians on have been.
This time the plan gets the fountain pen and cartridge paper treatment - a treaty, an agreement between two countries recognised internationally.
It is the latest attempt to shove the whole idea into a place where it actually works and escapes the crippling judgements of an array of courts.
A senior Labour figure who's been doing a spot of maths texts me: "It's one year, five months and 20 days almost to the hour since the first flight of asylum seekers was originally due to depart for Rwanda, before it was cancelled at the last minute.
James Cleverly will dash back home within seven or eight hours of arriving in Rwanda —and is expected in the Commons on Wednesday setting out the planned new law on the treaty.
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