The government has been given the go-ahead to take a legal battle over its Rwanda deportation policy to the Supreme Court.
Under the government’s proposed Illegal Migration Bill, anyone who arrives in the UK illegally will be banned from claiming asylum, and will be deported to their home country or a safe third country like Rwanda, and will also be banned from reentry.
But in a majority decision last month, judges at the Court of Appeal overturned an earlier High Court ruling and ruled that the policy is “unlawful.”
The government sought to appeal the decision at the Supreme Court, and the Court of Appeal gave it the go-ahead on Thursday….