The Mail’s front page on Liz Truss’ Rwanda policy went down as well as you’d expect

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Monday evening will see the first head-to-head debate between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, the sentient-barrel scrapings of Boris Johnson’s government, who are currently having a public slanging match to win his job.

Ever hungry for anything she believes to be positive publicity, the Foreign Secretary shared a Mail article about her latest campaign pledge – to send more people to Rwanda.

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Coincidentally, the judicial review to determine whether the government’s flagship policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda is actually legal is set to begin on September 5th – the day the new PM takes office.

Neither the Mail nor Liz Truss covered themselves in glory with that front page, and the comments reflected it rather well – occasionally veering into NSFW territory.

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James O’Brien summed up the relationship between questionable government statements and a certain set of client journalists.

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