We’re working on new treaty with Rwanda-Sunak

After the Supreme Court ruling yesterday (Wednesday November 15) against the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has vowed to stop at nothing in preventing in making the Rwanda deal possible.

“I will not take the easy way out,” he said on his X handle.

To achieve this, Rishi Sunak says he’s taking the extraordinary step of introducing emergency legislation to confirm Rwanda is safe.

The British Prime Minister in a post on his X handle said: ‘Following today’s ruling, I’m taking the extraordinary step of introducing emergency legislation to confirm Rwanda is safe.
I will not allow a foreign court, like the European Court of Human Rights, to block these flights.

“We need to end the merry-go-round.We’ve been working on a new international treaty with Rwanda and we will ratify it without delay.

“We’ll provide a guarantee in law that those who are relocated from the UK to Rwanda will be protected against removal from Rwanda.”

Continuing he said: “I will not take the easy way out.
I am prepared to change our laws and revisit those international relationships to remove the obstacles in our way.

“If the ECHR chooses to intervene against Parliament, I am prepared to do whatever is necessary to get flights off.

“We need to stop the boats and the Rwanda policy is an essential part of the deterrent.”

The Supreme Court, Rishi Sunak said “has today confirmed that removing asylum seekers to a third safe country is lawful.

“People need to know that if you come here illegally, you will not get to stay.
“The move was designed to deter people from migrating to the UK illegally through small boats.

In a ruling by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Robert Reed, presiding judge, said there were substantial grounds to believe that genuine refugees sent to the country could be at risk of being returned to countries from which they have fled.

Reed said the principle of not sending refugees back to their home countries, if they would be subject to a real risk of abuse, is embedded in British laws.