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The Prime Minister last night accused the BBC of being more critical of the Rwanda migrants plan than of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Boris Johnson told Conservative MPs that the BBC and the Archbishop of Canterbury were “less vociferous” in their criticism of the Russian president than they were of plans to send asylum seekers to the landlocked east African nation.
Addressing Tory backbenchers at a private meeting on Tuesday evening, Mr Johnson said that the Rwanda deal was a very good policy despite it being “misconstrued” by the BBC and by senior members of the clergy.
The Archbishop led the Church of England’s attack on the policy, saying it raises “serious ethical questions” and “cannot stand the judgment of God” or “carry the weight of our national responsibility as a country formed by Christian values”.
He also used his sermon to call for a “Russian ceasefire, withdrawal and a commitment to talks”, adding that “this is a time for resetting the ways of peace…let the darkness of war be banished”. He did not mention Putin by name but said that dictators who “rule by fear, violence and cruelty” will lose.
On the same morning, the Archbishop of York joined the Archbishop of Canterbury in criticising the Government’s plans to send migrants to Rwanda.
In his Easter Sunday sermon at York Minster, Stephen Cottrell said he had found it “so depressing and distressing this week to find that asylum seekers fleeing war, famine and oppression from deeply, deeply troubled parts of the world will not be treated with the dignity and compassion that is the right of every human being, and instead of being dealt with quickly and efficiently here on our soil will be shipped to Rwanda”.
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