British experts on constitutional law and the UK’s relationship with Europe are divided on the question of what might happen in the wake of the Rwanda deportations impasse.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) stepped in at the last minute on Tuesday night with an interim measure that effectively blocked the British government from deporting any asylum seekers to Rwanda.
In April British Home Secretary Priti Patel signed a deal that allowed for asylum seekers who had entered the UK illegally—usually involving crossing the English Channel on a human trafficker’s boat—to be sent to the East African country and held there while their claims were processed….