The Supreme Court rules against Britain’s Rwanda plan. What now?
The Tories’ flagship immigration policy is blocked
IT WOULD NEVER have “stopped the boats”. But the Supreme Court’s ruling on November 15th that the government’s plan to fly asylum-seekers to Rwanda was unlawful is still a hefty blow to Rishi Sunak. The prime minister has pledged to tackle the problem of illegal migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats. The court’s decision puts a big hole in the Illegal Migration Act, which allows for asylum-seekers who have entered Britain via another safe country to be detained and deported.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Stopping the planes”
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