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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will not allow the European Court of Human Rights to block the government's planned policy of deporting migrants to Rwanda. Speaking after the UK Supreme Court ruled the policy unlawful, he says he will introduce "emergency legislation" to designate Rwanda a safe country. "If the (European Court of Human Rights) chooses to intervene against the express wishes of parliament, I am prepared to do what is necessary to get the flights off" he says. SOUNDBITE
Rishi Sunak arrives at Buckingham Palace to formally offer his resignation as Britain's prime minister to King Charles III. The constitutional tradition comes after a general election that saw a landslide victory for the Labour Party, ending 14 years of right-wing Conservative rule. IMAGES
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sets a general election date for July 4, ending months of speculation about when he would go to the country. IMAGES
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says that he is 'truly sorry' for the decades-long UK scandal in which thousands of people died after being treated with infected blood was covered up and largely could have been avoided, according to a bombshell report published on May 20. SOUNDBITE
Protesters in London try to block the removal of migrants from their temporary accommodation, as the UK government began detaining people before controversial deportation flights to Rwanda start. The protesters occupy the road in front of a bus believed to be waiting to take asylum seekers from a hotel in the Peckham area of the British capital to an accommodation barge moored off the south coast of England. A London Metropolitan Police statement said a number of people had been arrested. IMAGES
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