The interior minister told lawmakers that the precautionary measures were not an “absolute barrier” to the removal of asylum seekers because they were on the flight – and that they would be noted as efforts to do so continue. He insisted that the Home Office would continue with the policy – which has been described as shameful by the Church of England and reportedly considered “disgusting” by the Prince of Wales – despite legal challenges. Political Center: Starmer calls Boris Johnson “Jamba the Hat” The Home Secretary accused the “usual suspects” backed by the Labor Party of trying to “prevent and even campaign against” the government’s efforts and the “will of the British people”. He added that the “mobs” would not be allowed to block the movement – an obvious reference to protesters who recently tried to prevent immigration officials from taking a man to south London a few days ago. A plane was waiting in a Ministry of Defense corridor on Tuesday night to transport migrants to Rwanda, when the European Court of Human Rights issued last-minute orders to stop the deportation of passengers. British judges in the Court of Appeal ruled on Monday that the flight could take place after legal action by activists, who say the government’s plan to send some migrants to the East African country is inhumane. Ms Patel said the ECtHR “did not consider the policy or relocation to be illegal, but prohibited the removal of three of those on yesterday’s flight”. “These bans last for different periods of time, but they are not an absolute obstacle to their transfer to Rwanda,” he said. Use the Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 5:28 Patel is accused of “trick” Rwanda “Whoever has been ordered to be released by the courts will be identified as we continue as we proceed with his relocation. “While this decision by the Strasbourg court to intervene was disappointing and surprising given the repeated and deliberate decisions to the contrary in our domestic courts, we remain committed to this policy.” Yvette Cooper, the shadowy interior minister, described Rwanda’s policy as “hama”. “This is rubble and it is a shame and the interior minister has no one but herself to blame,” he said. But Ms. Patel said critics had no alternative proposals for tackling “uncontrolled immigration.” The government says its program in Rwanda will prevent migrants from being exploited by traffickers on dangerous journeys across the Channel. The interior minister said: “This government will not be discouraged from doing the right thing. “We will not be discouraged by the inevitable last-minute legal challenges. “Nor will we allow the mobs to block the movement.” Earlier, Labor and Pensions Minister Therese Coffey told Sky News that the government would appeal against the European decision and was “very confident” that the next plane chartered under the program would take off. Ms Coffey rejected any suggestion that the United Kingdom might withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, which the court had set up, saying it “knew no decision or hint even about it”. Asked to leave the conference on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said “it may be very necessary” to “change some laws to help us”. But Tory MPs have expressed frustration. One of them, Peter Bowen, said: “We have to retire and have our own British Convention on Human Rights.” Follow the Daily Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Spreaker Ms Patel told the House of Commons: “It’s obviously worrying about the opaque nature of last night’s appeal by the European Court of Human Rights, in the way it informed the UK Government about one person. “Of course it is right to spend time returning to this court to really find out the reasons on which they made their decision.” Downing Street said the government would do “whatever it takes” to ensure that expulsion flights to Rwanda take place, and when asked about withdrawing from the contract said it was keeping “all options on the table”.
