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Actors, TV personalities and campaigners call for scrapping of Rwanda scheme

Source: PA Archive

Succession star Brian Cox and television presenter Gary Lineker are among high-profile signatories to a letter calling for the Government to scrap its Rwanda scheme and for political leaders to come up with a “fair new plan for refugees”.

They branded Britain’s refugee system “ever-more uncaring, chaotic and costly”, and said asylum policies are not working.

The correspondence, also signed by women’s rights campaigner , Hotel Rwanda star and television chef Big Zuu, who is the son of a refugee from Sierra Leone, comes in the week MPs will debate and vote on the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill.

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