Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, has ruled out introducing safe and legal routes for Sudanese asylum seekers to claim sanctuary.
"We have no plans to do that,” she said. "Our focus, first and foremost, right now, and bearing in mind this is a fast-moving situation and a complex situation, is to support British nationals and their dependents."
She was rebuked by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) for claiming Sundanese people should contact it because “they are the right mechanism by which people should apply if they do want to seek asylum in the UK,"
The UNHCR said there was no mechanism to claim asylum in the UK through its organisation and that an “overwhelming majority” of refugees had no safe and legal routes to claim asylum in the UK.
It came as the first flight carrying British nationals evacuated from Sudan has landed at Stansted Airport.
Evacuees on board the ZT4820 flight, operated by Smartwings, touched down in the UK shortly after 2pm after departing from Larnaca on Wednesday morning. More than 130 people including children were on the flight.
Downing Street said the number of evacuees flown out of Sudan had passed 300 people following a fourth flight, with a further four expected to depart on Wednesday.
The first arrivals come as a former RAF commander defended Britain's rescue effort after it emerged 39 people were on board the first flight from Sudan to Cyprus.
Greg Bagwell, now president of the UK Air & Space Power Association, said the UK had far more people to evacuate than other European nations and had therefore prioritised diplomats in the first 72-hour ceasefire window.
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