Europe is watching UK’s election battle over deporting migrants to Rwanda EU governments used to castigate Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda scheme: not any more.

(Politico) Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda asylum policy has repeatedly been declared illegal by U.K. judges, is yet to send any migrants to Rwanda, and has so far failed to rescue the British prime minister from the verge of electoral oblivion.

That hasn’t put off some European leaders, who increasingly like what they see.

The day before Sunak called the snap election that will decide his political fate, the PM was in Austria being lauded as an asylum “pioneer” by the country’s conservative chancellor Karl Nehammer — who said he’d been inspired to “put asylum proceedings in safe third countries on the European Union’s agenda too.”

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