UK immigration minister Robert Jenrick has resigned – Home Office minister

December 6, 2023
UK immigration minister Robert Jenrick has resigned - Home Office minister
Cabinet meeting at Downing Street in London

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s immigration minister Robert Jenrick quit on Wednesday, after the government published draft emergency legislation aimed at getting its Rwandan migrant deportation scheme up and running, one of his ministerial colleagues said.

Asked on LBC Radio if Jenrick had resigned, after rumours he was planning to, junior Home Office minister Laura Ferris said: “I understand that he has.”

(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Alistair Smout)

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