Portrait of the Week: Huw Edwards resigns, Mark Menzies resigns and Frank Field dies

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Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, said that within 12 weeks asylum-seekers could be flown to Rwanda. This followed the passing of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill. Five out of 110 people in a small inflatable boat died near the French coast. A BBC correspondent had watched French police trying to stop migrants boarding the inflatable boat at Wimereux, but once they were aboard, police made no attempt to stop them. After refusing to be rescued, 58 people remained on the small boat and continued their journey to Britain, escorted by a French Navy ship. Some 200 migrants in all landed in Dover that day. Train drivers for different companies decided to go on strike on different days between 7 and 9 May.