• King’s Court: Small Boats, Big Row: How The Supreme Court Ruling Impacts Rishi’s Rwanda Plan

    Staff writer Lily Powell gives her verdict on the Supreme Court’s Rwanda Plan ruling and the future for the plan. The judgment is in and the government’s policy is unlawful.  The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the Court of Appeal’s ruling that the Conservative’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda breaches human rights. The policy, announced in April 2022, was often referred to as the ‘stop the boats’ plan and sought to send anyone illegally entering the UK to Rwanda to claim asylum there.   The government has already spent over £140m on the scheme, however no one has been sent…