Home secretary James Cleverly says the government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is "an absolute priority." Mr Cleverly is tasked with delivering a new treaty with Rwanda and introducing emergency legislation after the Supreme Court found the government’s current plan to be unlawful. He added that it's "important that we get this treaty right and that it serves the British people." Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Well, the important thing is we get this treaty right, that it's robust, that it reflects
00:04 the issues which were raised by the Supreme Court, whose judgement of course we respect
00:09 and we are acting upon.
00:11 So we know this is an absolute priority, we know this is a priority for the British people
00:15 and that's why we continue to work at high speed, but robustly, to get this right.