On 14 April 2022, the UK government published a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which concluded that illegal immigrants and asylum seekers would be relocated to Rwanda for resettlement, asylum and processing. Following the UK’s exit from the European Union , this MoU is part of the UK’s restructuring of its refugee and asylum law. 

Thomas Pursglove is Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration. He has been the Member of Parliament for Corby since May 2015. At the time of his election, he was the youngest Conservative MP.