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An ex-UK Cabinet Minister suggests bussing refugees to the Irish border in order to show the "pious" Irish government who is the boss. Of the bus?
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An ex-UK Cabinet Minister suggests bussing refugees to the Irish border in order to show the "pious" Irish government who is the boss. Of the bus?

Jim Power & Chris Johns
May 01, 2024
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The Irish border hasn’t gone away you know. And it hands the UK wing-nuts a PR victory: their Rwanda policy is ‘working’.

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