The Supreme Court of Britain overturned the contentious plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda on Wednesday, striking a possibly fatal blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s centre piece migration policy and paving the way for the extreme wing of his Conservative party to launch an expected uprising.
The highest court in the United Kingdom dismissed the government’s argument and upheld an earlier appeals court decision that declared the programme illegal, as it has been strongly denounced by humanitarian organisations.
It thwarts a plan to transport illegally arriving asylum seekers from the UK to the country in east Africa. Since its initial announcement in April 2022, the plan has faced numerous court challenges and has not succeeded in deporting any individuals.
The Conservative Party’s right is predicted to demand that Britain withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), a move that has been hanging over the government for months and deepened divisions between moderates and populists inside the party’s coalition.
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