The government's plan has faced widespread criticism and legal challenges from refugee charities
Truss, the Conservative leadership frontrunner, made the pledge despite the Rwanda policy being in legal limbo.
Priti Patel said the scheme would be a 'deterrent' against making the crossing in small boats.
The social media influencer was held in quarantine in Rwanda for two days after receiving a false positive test for coronavirus.
The UK is now languishing below countries like Rwanda and the Philippines for gender equality. According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) index of nations based on the gender gap in key areas including the economy, politics, education and health, the UK is in 20th place, while Rwanda is placed fifth. The WEF, a not-for-profit body based in Switzerland, analysed data from 144 countries worldwide and said the global gender gap had widened to its largest since 2008.
Two young gorillas worked together to dismantle a poacher’s trap in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park - and researchers say they have never seen them behave like this. The two juveniles were seen dismantling snares days after one of the crude traps - made of bent bamboo stalks - had killed another youngster. ‘"This is absolutely the first time that we’ve seen juveniles doing that … I don’t know of any other reports in the world of juveniles destroying snares,’ said Veronica Vecellio from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.