Mansfield and Warsop MP Ben Bradley has welcomed this morning’s ruling from the High Court that the landmark UK-Rwanda Migration Partnership is lawful. The ruling by Lord Justice Lewis determined that the scheme to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda and for their claims to be processed there, does not breach either UK domestic law or international law.
Mr Bradley has consistently supported the government’s efforts to implement this partnership and offshore some of the UK’s asylum processing capacities to a third country. Ben has also previously been clear that the UK asylum system needs a complete overhaul in order to make it work and restore trust in the UK’s immigration controls. This includes offshoring asylum applicants and reform of UK human rights laws, both of which the government are implementing.
The ruling today follows the statement last week from the Prime Minister laid out a number of measures to combat the current crossings in the channel. This included a new deal with Albania that implemented weekly removal flights to Albania in the new year, 700 more border force staff, increasing the number of asylum caseworkers and numerous other measures.
Ben stated:
‘This morning’s ruling from the High Court is extremely welcome and shows that attempts by lefty lawyers to stop the government in its attempts to deal with illegal immigration have no strong legal standing.’
‘I was glad to see the High Court confirm that Rwanda is a safe country for asylum offshoring, something we know as international partners such as Denmark have also signed deals with Rwanda to offshore their asylum processing in the country.’
‘The people who filed the challenge to this plan, and often oppose any measure to break the business model of the people smugglers and stop the crossings in the channel, simply do not understand how out of touch they are. My office is inundated with emails every week on this subject from constituents who rightly want to see action and are tired of solutions being held up in legal battles.’
‘This morning’s ruling and the plans unveiled in the statement from the Prime Minister last week, like the weekly removal flights, will go a long way to tackling this issue and stopping these crossings, however much these lawyers may not like it.’
