The first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda will leave in 10-12 weeks, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said as he promised that "no ifs, no buts" the scheme would be put into operation.
Mr Sunak said "enough is enough" as he said MPs and peers would sit through the night if necessary to get the Safety of Rwanda Bill through Parliament.
Mr Sunak had originally promised that flights would go to Rwanda in spring, but his new timetable suggested the first plane would not leave until July.
At a Downing Street press conference he blamed Labour opposition to the scheme for the delays, but vowed: "We will start the flights and we will stop the boats."
The UK Prime Minister said an airfield was on standby and charter flights had been booked to take asylum seekers on the one-way trip to Rwanda.
Mr Sunak declined to give details on numbers of people likely to leave on flights to Rwanda, but said there will be a "regular rhythm" of "multiple flights a month through the summer and beyond".
He said he would not provide exact operational details due to the "loud minority of people who will do absolutely anything and everything to disrupt this policy from succeeding".
He added: "This is about a regular rhythm, multiple flights a month, through the summer and beyond.
"Because that's how you build a sustainable deterrent, right, the first flight in 10 to 12 weeks and, as I said, later than we would have liked but you can see the delays that we've been subjected to thanks to the Labour Party.
"But it's not just about that one flight. It's about putting a system in place and that's what we've done that will ensure the successful delivery of multiple flights a month, through the summer and beyond until the boats have stopped."
