“Human rights” culture is now an active threat to the rule of law
Boris Johnson’s Rwanda deportation policy has descended into a circular farce.
The British government wanted to deport illegal asylum-seekers to Rwanda, under an agreement reached with that country. It intended to fly out the first such group yesterday.
A succession of appeals by human rights lawyers had reduced the proposed number of deportees from 130 to seven. Last night, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg ruled against the removal of the migrants — who included an Iraqi, an Iranian, a Vietnamese and an Albanian — thus grounding the flight half an hour before it was due to leave.
