Hours after his flagship Rwanda asylum scheme had been ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court, Rishi Sunak came out fighting. Amid pressure from the Tory Right to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the Prime Minister pledged he would “not allow a foreign court to block these flights”.
This was a confounding statement for two reasons. First, the Supreme Court is a British court. Second, its ruling made clear that membership of the ECHR was not the only international treaty relevant to the decision and that there were issues surrounding domestic human rights laws as well.
