THE Supreme Court will deliver is verdict on whether the government’s flagship plan to deport migrants to Rwanda next week.
Judges will hand down the judgement next Wednesday shortly after 10am which will determine whether the £140 million scheme can be enacted.
PASuella Braverman says its “impossible” to give a timeline on any deportation flights[/caption]
The ruling from the country’s highest court comes after the government challenged an earlier Court of Appeal decision which deemed the policy unlawful.
No deportation flights have taken off even though the deal was first signed back in April 2022.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has said it was “impossible” to give a timeline on flights if the court gives the policy the green light.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made illegal migration one of his five priorities.
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He used a speech in January to say he wanted to ‘stop the boats. The number of asylum seekers coming to the UK has dropped by around a fifth but still remains at almost 26,700 migrants.
During the hearing Sir James Eadie KC, for the Home Office, said the policy to remove people to “a country less attractive” than the UK, “but nevertheless safe”, is lawful.
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Raza Husain KC, for several of the asylum seekers described the country’s asylum system as “woefully deficient… marked by acute unfairness and arbitrariness”.
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