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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan & Ben Glaze

Moment Boris Johnson vowed to keep human rights laws he's now trashing over Rwanda

Boris Johnson gave a passionate defence of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) only weeks before the Brexit referendum.

But the Prime Minister is now floating the idea of pulling out of the convention as he tries to force through plans to ship asylum seekers to Rwanda.

The first deportation flight was due to take off on Tuesday night but the plane was grounded at the last minute due to a legal ruling by European judges.

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