The High Court in London has refused to block Home Secretary Priti Patel’s plans to send 31 asylum seekers to Rwanda on Tuesday.
Justice Jonathan Swift rejected a request for an interim injunction to stop the flight but did not rule on whether or not the policy was lawful.
The Home Office, which says the policy is in the public interest and is designed to deter people from making the hazardous journey across the Channel, intends to send a plane containing 31 asylum seekers to the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on June 14.
Lawyers acting for a number of different groups claimed the Rwanda policy was unlawful and sought an injunction to ground Tuesday’s planned flight, and any others, ahead of a full hearing later in the year….