Ignore the technical talk about treaties, conventions and legislation. The Supreme Court ruling on the Government’s Rwanda deportation policy is just one more story of a Conservative leader dancing to Nigel Farage’s tune and falling flat on his face.
Farage may be thousands of miles away in the Australian jungle, but Rishi Sunak’s Rwandan debacle is very much his work. He did more than anyone else to make “small boats” a significant issue in British politics - or, more accurately, in Right-wing British politics. For Conservative voters today, immigration is now the No 1 political priority, but the electorate as a whole sees the economy and the NHS as more important.
