The Home Office will be forced to release more than 100 migrants from detention if its first deportation flight to Rwanda is halted by a legal ruling today.
High Court judges are to decide whether to impose an interim injunction temporarily stopping deportations to the African country.
The measure will stay in place until judges have considered a legal challenge that claims Priti Patel’s policy is unlawful. Boris Johnson is confident the policy will survive and expects the first flight to leave on Tuesday, his official spokesman said yesterday.
Home Office insiders have said that even if the High Court rejects calls for a temporary pause, the flight has only a “slim chance” of taking off. Individual legal appeals have been lodged for each
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