The Latest Breaking News from Priti Patel

The Home Secretary has signed an order to extradite Assange to the US on espionage charges

British Interior Minister Priti Patel on Friday approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face criminal charges, bringing his long-running legal saga closer to a conclusion.

The plane “to nowhere” — which never took off on Tuesday evening, intended for Rwanda — was just what the Government expected. The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, could not be happier with a situation where lawyers and Strasbourg judges (not the EU) are the enemy, rather than the organised criminal…

Sources last night told The Mirror that government officials believed the increase could, in part, be blamed on that decision – which is still being battled in the courts.

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab indicated removals would be halted until after the High Court judgement - despite Priti Patel signalling she was preparing for a flight within weeks

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab refused to give a cast iron guarantee that any asylum seekers would have been deported to Rwanda by the end of the year

In today’s newsletter: details on the dreadful news of the Guardian contributor and Indigenous activist missing in Brazil, and more on the resignation of Lord Geidt

Record View says the point of the flights is to appeal to a particular Tory point of view and distract from Downing Street’s law-breaking and the cost-of-living crisis.

Special Report: Taken from cells, restrained by harnesses and made to board a plane, only to be granted a last-minute reprieve by European judges. The asylum seekers that Boris Johnson wants to send to central Africa tell May Bulman and Bel Trew their harrowing stories