Rwanda flight plans face legal threat as pressure grows on PM to back down

Home Secretary Priti Patel (left) as the agreement with the Rwandan Government was signed in Kigali this April

THE UK Government is facing the prospect of its flagship asylum policy to deport migrants to Rwanda being halted in a court ruling.

Court of Appeal judges are expected to deliver a verdict on Monday afternoon which could put the plans – which have been criticised as breaching the human rights of migrants – on hold.