The government’s first deportation flight to Rwanda looks set to go ahead on Tuesday evening after the Supreme Court refused to consider a fresh appeal by immigrant rights campaigners, ruling that the Court of Appeal’s verdict on Monday was correct.
The strategy of outsourcing asylum claims to an African nation with a highly questionable human rights record has been met with a storm of criticism, from Prince Charles branding it “appalling” to protesters demonstrating outside a detention centre in Crawley and the Home Office in Westminster.
