By any measure it was a startling headline in The Times: “Rwanda is forcing us to obey the law, says Sunak”. The Prime Minister confirmed that the African nation, which the UK Supreme Court does not deem to be a “safe country”, has insisted that this country must conform to international law as a pre-requisite for any deal on Rwanda hosting our illegal migrants.
So much for Britain being “one of the leading lights in the world in the international legal order”, in the words of Professor Robert Spano, former President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). At a news conference the Prime Minister whined repeatedly that Rwanda was preventing him from moving another “inch” to appease right-wing MPs in his party.
