Both British PM candidates support stalled plan to ship asylum seekers to Rwanda

FILE This combo of file photos shows the remaining candidates in the Conservative Party leadership race, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. The two candidates to become Britain’s next prime minister have begun a ...Both of the candidates looking to succeed Boris Johnson say they back — and would even expand — the ousted prime minister’s controversial plan to send illegal immigrants in large numbers to the African nation of Rwanda, a plan sharply denounced by immigrant and human rights groups in the U.K.

Rishi Sunak, Mr. Johnson’s former chancellor of the exchequer and the son of African-born parents of Indian descent, and rival Liz Truss, the…