Spare a thought for the home secretary’s sleep patterns. The damage her subconscious is doing to her psyche. On her own admission she spends much of the night dreaming of asylum seekers being loaded on to planes and deported to Rwanda. Suella Braverman doesn’t count sheep. She counts human misery. Nothing can replicate the thrill of seeing a frightened and desperate person finding themselves in a processing centre in Kigali. The more she can count, the better she sleeps.
So imagine her frustration that, as yet, not a single deportation flight has left the UK for Rwanda. Her sense of powerlessness as she wakes up to find her dreams are mere unfulfilled desires. And will remain so for the foreseeable future as, on Thursday, the court of appeal ruled that the government’s Rwanda policy was unlawful. In contravention of human rights.
