The pedantic point is the Government is not Parliament. The more significant point is that Parliamentary sovereignty means Parliament can make rules. It cannot make facts. If it says two plus two is … (View Post)

I agree that they could change the facts by actually making Rwanda safe as a place where asylum applicants sent from the UK are not at risk of refoulement. Maybe they will and, if they do, the ECHR i… (View Post)

The specific risk the courts have said applies to asylum applicants sent to Rwanda is of refoulement - that is return to an unsafe country of origin where they face persecution. Citizens of Rwanda, b… (View Post)

Governments can restrict human rights, certainly. Quite a lot do around the world, and in many cases far more radically than even Lee Anderson would in his moistest dreams. On the more positive side,… (View Post)

Indeed. The whole ECHR angle is a total red herring here, in my view (a dog whistle to the Brexit-mindset). The fact is the courts found (as a point of fact) a real risk of claims being wrongly deter… (View Post)