BREAKING: The first deportation flight due to take asylum seekers to Rwanda will not be taking off tonight following a series of last-minute legal appeals, the Home Office has confirmed. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
"These repeated legal barriers are similar to those we experience with other removals flights and many of those removed from this flight will be placed on the next.
It was understood the European Court, which granted an urgent interim measure blocking the removal of one Iraqi detainee, was considering a number of further requests. But Prime Minister Boris Johnson has maintained that the policy's aim is"to support safe and legal routes for people to come to the UK and to oppose the illegal and dangerous routes".
Stop Deportations protesters had earlier taken direct action to resist the first deportation flight, locking themselves together with metal pipes and blockading exits of Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre at Heathrow where the remaining people the Home Office intended to put on the plane were believed to be being held.
Mr Solomon continued:"The government must immediately rethink by having a grown-up conversation with France and the EU about sharing responsibility and look to operating an orderly, humane, and fair asylum system." While the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan tweeted:"Sending people fleeing violence to a country thousands of miles away was already cruel and callous. It's now potentially unlawful too."The Bishop of Manchester was one of those who publicly condemned the Rwanda schemeThe four potential deportees who lost High Court bids earlier to avoid being put on the plane include:
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