Downing Street has confirmed the government will carry on with the Home Office plan to send illegal immigrants who have crossed the English Channel to Rwanda, despite Boris Johnson’s resignation as prime minister on Thursday.
The prime minister’s official spokesman said on Friday: “This is a pre-agreed government policy. Convention doesn’t prevent or preclude government from seeking to fulfil that policy and that would include defending cases in court as required.”
A legal challenge to the policy is due to be heard in the High Court in London on July 19 but Downing Street says they might try to get a plane full of illegal immigrants sent to the east African country before that date….