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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rajeev Syal and Kiran Stacey

Sunak’s bill aims to block UK human rights law to save Rwanda scheme

Rishi Sunak with the president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, last week.
Rishi Sunak with the president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, last week. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Rishi Sunak aims to block UK human rights laws in an effort to revive the government’s faltering plans to send people seeking asylum to Rwanda.

An emergency bill published on Wednesday will assert that ministers have the power to ignore judgments that come from Strasbourg while stopping short of leaving or “disapplying” the European convention on human rights.

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