Please feel free to add your own words to the email to your MP.

A shocking new low for the UK government: Home Secretary Priti Patel still plans to start deporting asylum seekers, including Syrians, to Rwanda. It’s totally unprecedented and if the flights take off the government will be ripping up its obligations to provide safety for people fleeing war and persecution – and setting a dangerous example for other countries.

Seeking asylum is a basic human right, not a crime. Refugees should be protected no matter where they're from or how they reach the border, not removed to third countries before they’ve even had their cases fully considered in the UK. MPs from across the benches have slammed the government’s ugly policy, which is also being challenged in the courts, but time is running out. Email your MP now to persuade even more MPs to speak out to stop the deportations and reverse this inhumane policy: