Lawyers make successful emergency application to European court that could lead to grounding of first flight
Boris Johnson’s plans to send thousands of asylum seekers to Rwanda were plunged into chaos last night after a dramatic 11th hour ruling by theLawyers for one of the seven asylum seekers due to fly on Tuesday evening made a successful emergency application to the ECHR after exhausting applications to UK courts.
The ruling is a significant blow for Boris Johnson’s flagship policy which has promised to send thousands of asylum seekers 4,000 miles to the east African country. “It is now incumbent on Boris Johnson and Conservative MPs to respect the judgment and await the final ruling of the UK courts which should come next month in relation to the lawfulness of this policy,” he said.Earlier, the prime minister hinted again that the UK could leave the European convention on human rights to make it easier to remove illegal migrants from the UK.
Most successfully lodged appeals claiming that sending those seeking sanctuary in the UK to an east African state with a poor human rights record breaches their human rights or that they have been victims of modern slavery.At a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Johnson also implied that lawyers representing asylum seekers are aiding human traffickers who charge thousands for journeys in dangerous boats across the Channel.
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