The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, used a scathing speech on Easter Sunday to say that the plan “must withstand God’s judgment – and it cannot.” “Assigning our responsibilities to subcontracting, even to a country that seeks to do well, like Rwanda, is the opposite of the nature of God, who has taken responsibility for our failures,” he said. Welby’s intervention came as the interior ministry official said he had no evidence that the plan to fly 4,000 miles to Rwanda would act as a deterrent – and therefore could not be sure that it would be good use of public money. Rees-Mogg, Brexit Minister for Opportunities, said the Church of England’s top clergyman was “misunderstanding” politics and that it was in fact “almost an Easter redemption story” for Rwanda. The former head of the Communities said that the United Kingdom “provides an opportunity for Rwanda” and that the policy “therefore must be positive”. Speaking on Radio 4’s The World This Weekend, he said: “I think it misunderstands what politics is trying to achieve and that it is not a waiver of responsibility. In fact, it is a very difficult responsibility to take on. “The problem is that people are risking their lives at the hands of human traffickers to enter this country illegally. “Now, it is not the illegal part of it, it is the encouragement of traffickers that must stop.” He added that “90% of the people who come are young men who, coming through traffickers, jump the queue for others.” “In doing so, they are not only risking their lives but they are supporting organized crime. “What we need to do is focus on legal routes to this country, of which there are quite a number,” he said. “Against the nature of God”: British archbishops criticize Rwanda asylum plan – video Welby was criticized by York Archbishop Steven Cottrell, who described politics as “depressing and painful.” In an Easter Sunday sermon at York Minster, Cottrell said: “We can do better than that. We can do better than that because of what we see in Jesus Christ, the resurrected Christ, with a vision for our humanity where obstacles are broken down and not new obstacles in the path. “Ultimately, there is no such thing as an illegal asylum seeker in the law. We must fight the people who exploit them, not our sisters and brothers in need. We do not need to build more obstacles and hide in the darkness of the shadows they create. “We want to continue to be known as a country that opens the right, legal paths for all those fleeing violence, conflict and oppression, not only those from Ukraine, but also those fleeing other conflicts and the effects of climate change. change? ‘
