Home Office was told Rwanda policy was making asylum seekers feel suicidal

Accommodation providers told officials of increase in people threatening to harm themselves, minutes of meeting show The Home Office was warned that its Rwanda policy was causing a rise in the number of asylum seekers reporting feeling suicidal and vanishing from hotel accommodation, an internal safeguarding document has revealed. The Labour peer Helena Kennedy KC has called the Home Office "heartless" for pursuing the policy despite officials knowing how much damage it was causing to people. In...