A Home Office agreement with Rwanda will remain despite Boris Johnson’s resignation
The Ministry of Defence stated that one boat carrying the migrants was intercepted as it attempted to arrive in the UK on Friday, July 8.
This brings the total of people to have made the crossing so far this year to 13,124, compared to 6659 by this point in 2021 and 2459 in 2020. On Friday, Downing Street confirmed the Home Office agreement with Rwanda remained despite Boris Johnson’s resignation, and suggested the first deportation flight could be made before a legal challenge against the policy is heard on July 19.“Convention doesn’t prevent or preclude government from seeking to fulfil that policy and that would include defending cases in court as required.”
In April, Home Secretary Priti Patel signed what she branded a “world-first” agreement to send migrants deemed to have arrived in the UK illegally to Rwanda.Steve Valdez-Symonds from Amnesty International UK has urged the Government to re-think the “disastrous plan”, claiming it was “irresponsible and callous”.
He added: “The UK Government is so far removed from reality and lacking in humanity that they are not only destroying the asylum system, but also people’s lives.”
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