The Rishi Sunak government’s Rwanda refugee policy was always more performative than practical (“Forced repatriation fears sink PM’s plans”, Report, November 16).
It was designed to make it look like the government were being tough on the boats problem.
In its ruling last week, the Supreme Court simply looked behind the performative curtain to see whether the current plan would work in practice.
Its conclusion, that the risk of asylum seekers being repatriated back to their countries of origin had not been properly addressed, is hardly judicial activism — it’s something that a competent policy should have addressed in the first place.
Chris Hilson
Professor of Law, University of Reading
Reading, Berkshire, UK
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