British minister reacts to Question Time blunder on Rwanda and Congo: ‘It was a rhetorical question’
British policing minister Chris Philp said he was posing a “rhetorical question” after he appeared to ask whether Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are different countries.
The MP for Croydon South earlier this week seemed to confuse the two African nations after a Question Time audience member from Congo asked about the Government’s new law on deporting some asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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