LONDON, June 18 ― Britain’s interior minister Priti Patel suggested in an interview published on Saturday that a European court’s intervention to stop a deportation flight to Rwanda was politically motivated.
“They’ve not used this ruling previously, which does make you question the motivation and the lack of transparency,” she added. It is hoping to reduce pressures including accommodation costs estimated at £5 million a day by sending some asylum seekers on a one-way ticket for resettlement in Rwanda. But the rights court is not part of the European Union, which the UK left in January last year, and London helped to set up the tribunal and draft the convention.
“We are very confident in the lawfulness of what we are doing and we are going to pursue the policy.” But Stephen Kinnock, the main opposition Labour party’s spokesman on immigration, said he was opposed to tagging people who arrived in small boats or in the back of lorries.
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