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Government plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful, the High Court ruled today - paving the way for ministers to prepare a new deportation flight. 

Priti Patel announced the policy in April as part of a 'world-first agreement' to stop migrants from crossing the Channel, but the first flight - due to take off on June 14 - was grounded after legal challenges to individual removals and the policy as a whole.

Today, two senior judges rejected arguments that the proposal to provide one-way tickets to the east African nation were unlawful, but ruled in favour of eight asylum seekers whose cases were 'not properly considered'.