Rwanda legislation due in 'coming weeks', says UK PM's spokesman

Emergency legislation to thwart legal challenges to the British government's policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will be introduced in the coming weeks, a spokesman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Thursday.

"We will be introducing the emergency legislation in the coming weeks," he told reporters, declining to offer a more detailed timeframe.

He also said the government believed the emergency legislation would rule out any "systemic" legal challenge from domestic courts.