Rishi Sunak is introducing emergency legislation to “confirm” that Rwanda is a safe country for asylum seekers deported from the UK, after the supreme court blocked his plan.
The prime minister said he would bring forward the new laws shortly and would be prepared to defy any judgment from the European court of human rights in Strasbourg if there were further attempts to stop Rwanda flights going ahead.
Addressing a Downing Street press conference, Sunak also said he was working on a new international treaty with Rwanda that would provide “guarantees in law” that people deported from the UK would not be returned to their home countries.
He said people were “frustrated by repeated challenges to attempts to get this done”, and he declined to criticise the Conservative party deputy chair Lee Anderson, who said the UK should ignore the court’s ruling and allow the flights to take off anyway.
Shortly before Sunak spoke, his former home secretary Suella Braverman joined a backlash from rightwing Tory MPs against the court decision, calling for emergency legislation to “block off” international and domestic legal avenues preventing the flights going ahead.
Sunak said he had already made progress in relation to rule 39 orders – the interim injunctions issued by the European court of human rights, one of which blocked the only planned flight to Rwanda.
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Rishi Sunak is introducing emergency legislation to “confirm” that Rwanda is a safe country for asylum seekers deported from the UK, after the supreme court blocked his plan.
The prime minister said he would bring forward the new laws shortly and would be prepared to defy any judgment from the European court of human rights in Strasbourg if there were further attempts to stop Rwanda flights going ahead.
Addressing a Downing Street press conference, Sunak also said he was working on a new international treaty with Rwanda that would provide “guarantees in law” that people deported from the UK would not be returned to their home countries.
He said people were “frustrated by repeated challenges to attempts to get this done”, and he declined to criticise the Conservative party deputy chair Lee Anderson, who said the UK should ignore the court’s ruling and allow the flights to take off anyway.
Shortly before Sunak spoke, his former home secretary Suella Braverman joined a backlash from rightwing Tory MPs against the court decision, calling for emergency legislation to “block off” international and domestic legal avenues preventing the flights going ahead.
Sunak said he had already made progress in relation to rule 39 orders – the interim injunctions issued by the European court of human rights, one of which blocked the only planned flight to Rwanda.
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