{"id":35593,"date":"2024-04-25T23:19:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T23:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/25\/minister-chris-philps-rwanda-question-raises-eyebrows\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T23:19:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T23:19:31","slug":"minister-chris-philps-rwanda-question-raises-eyebrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/25\/minister-chris-philps-rwanda-question-raises-eyebrows\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Chris Philp&#8217;s Rwanda question raises eyebrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/11A6F\/production\/_133230327_p0ht7sqr.jpg?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Minister Chris Philp&#8217;s Rwanda question raises eyebrows\" title=\"Minister Chris Philp&#8217;s Rwanda question raises eyebrows\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Minister of State Chris Philp was asked a question by an audience member from the Democratic Republic of Congo during BBC One&#8217;s Question Time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Philp asked in response: &#8220;Congo is a different country to Rwanda, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221; &#8211; raising eyebrows from panel members and the audience. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government&#8217;s Rwanda bill says any asylum seeker entering the UK &#8220;illegally&#8221; after 1 January 2022, from a safe country such as France, could be sent to Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can watch the latest episode of Question Time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/l0056lkq\/question-time-question-time\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-68901786\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of State Chris Philp was asked a question by an audience member from the Democratic Republic of Congo during BBC One&#8217;s Question Time. Mr Philp asked in response: &#8220;Congo is a different country to Rwanda, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221; &#8211; raising eyebrows from panel members and the audience. The government&#8217;s Rwanda bill says any asylum seeker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/11A6F\/production\/_133230327_p0ht7sqr.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[2790,38792,2124,38791,1728,506,60],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35595,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35593\/revisions\/35595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}