Minister vows to ‘fight vexatious claims’ stopping deportation flights to France

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Shabana Mahmood has claimed that migrants are ‘deciding that they are a modern slave on the eve of their removal’

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Home secretary Shabana Mahmood has vowed to fight “vexatious, last-minute” legal claims from asylum seekers fighting their removal under the UK’s “one in, one out” deal with France.

Minister vows to ‘fight vexatious claims’ stopping deportation flights to France

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