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#Notinmyname trends as first Rwanda flight to go ahead after campaigners lose Court fight

"Dear World, PLEASE know that not all of us in the UK either want or sanction the Rwanda deportation plan. It is #NotInMyName."

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2022-06-11 07:04
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Campaigners have lost a High Court bid to block the Government’s plan to send migrants to Rwanda, paving the way for the first flight to go ahead on Tuesday.

It comes as Prince Charles has privately criticised the government’s policy of deporting migrants to Rwanda, calling the practice “appalling”.

The heir to the throne has been heard opposing the policy behind closed doors, a source has told the Times and the Daily Mail.

The source said: “[Charles] said he was more than disappointed at the policy.

“He said he thinks the government’s whole approach is appalling. It was clear he was not impressed with the government’s direction of travel.”

A spokesperson for Clarence House said: “We would not comment on supposed anonymous private conversations with the Prince of Wales, except to restate that he remains politically neutral. Matters of policy are decisions for government.”

However they did not deny to the Times that Charles was opposed to the policy.

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One-way ticket

Migrants due to be given a one-way ticket to the east African nation as part of Home Secretary Priti Patel’s bid to curb Channel crossings, as well as campaign groups and a union, had asked judges to block their upcoming deportation flight.

Up to 130 people had been notified they could be removed.

The court heard 31 people were due on the first flight on Tuesday, with the Home Office planning to schedule more this year.

Lawyers for almost 100 migrants had submitted legal challenges asking to stay in the UK with the remaining anticipated to follow suit.

The first stage of action was brought on Friday by lawyers on behalf of two migrants alongside the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), which represents more than 80% of Border Force staff, as well as groups Care4Calais and Detention Action who are challenging the policy on behalf of everyone affected.

Judge Mr Justice Swift ruled against the claim and said: “I do not consider that the balance of convivence favours the grant of the generic relief.”

During the proceedings it emerged the Home Office had already cancelled removal directions for three people set to be on the first flight and that a further two will also have them cancelled.

The two remaining migrants who made the claim are still due to be removed on the flight.

During the hearing, Raza Husain QC, for the claimants, told the court the “procedure is simply unsafe” and called for an evidence-based assessment for the policy, “not an aspirational basis, or hopes”.

Risks

The barrister later said that the agreement between the two countries, known as a Memorandum of Understanding, was “unenforceable”.

“Nothing monitors it, there’s no evidence of structural change. The risks are just too high,” he added.

Mr Husain also told the court that assertions by the Home Office that UN refugee agency the UNHCR had given the plans the “green light” was a “false claim”.

However, Home Office lawyers said legal action should not be allowed to derail the plans and urged the court to reject the application, arguing there was a “strong public interest in permitting these removals to proceed as scheduled” and a “clear public interest in deterring the making of dangerous journeys and the activities of criminal smugglers”.

Previously, the department said it expected legal challenges but is “determined to deliver this new partnership” and insisted the policy “fully complies with international and national law” while Downing Street said Boris Johnson remains confident the policy is legal.

Shortly after the judgment was concluded, Mr Justice Swift granted the claimants permission to appeal, suggesting Court of Appeal judges would hear the case on Monday.

Not in my name

In response #Notinmyname and

1.

Several 🇬🇧 cabinet ministers are descended from refugees or economic migrants.

They all turn up to be photographed on Holocaust Memorial Day but had their #Rwanda policy been enacted 80 years ago even more Jews would have died.

They repulse me. #StopTheFlights #NotInMyName

— Brendan May (@bmay) June 10, 2022

2.

🔴 Home Office has spent >£50,000 on PR for its Rwanda immigration plan.

Including £14k+ hiring a comms firm to develop branding and messaging for the policy and tens of thousands on social media ads.

A good use of public money???

New @openDemocracy https://t.co/HJQg8ZuCY9

— Peter Geoghegan (@PeterKGeoghegan) June 10, 2022

3.

‘World-leading’. Idiot. pic.twitter.com/LpDwoIMvtP

— Brendan May (@bmay) June 10, 2022

4.

Who says I haven't achieved anything? I've made more people feel ashamed to be British than any other Prime Minister. #NotInMyName

— Parody Boris (@Parody_PM) June 10, 2022

5.

Britain. #NotInMyName https://t.co/Gsl52DpBYs

— Jessica Simor QC (@JMPSimor) June 10, 2022

6.

A bad day for the Government and taxpayers as we now have to waste staggering amounts of public money sending desperate refugees to Rwanda. https://t.co/dJt9xEb5AV

— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) June 10, 2022

7.

Dear World, PLEASE know that not all of us in the UK either want or sanction the Rwanda deportation plan. It is #NotInMyName
I am ashamed of what the country has become under the Premiership of the worst most corrupt lying POS this country has ever shat out.

— sue#NHSLove💙💙💙#FBNHS (@SueSuezep) June 10, 2022

8.

Home Office says the flight to Rwanda should take place because it is in the public's interest.

Not in my interest#NotInMyName

— Lady Victoria of Dogdom #FBPE (@victoriadonnac1) June 10, 2022

9.

People who come to Britain to commit no other crime than seeking refuge or a better life are to be dumped elsewhere, for no other reason than the government wants to appease racists. I hate what this country has become and I will never forgive the people who poisoned it.

— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) June 10, 2022

10.

A plea to all pilots and cabin crew…please refuse to fly to Rwanda #StopTheFlights #StopThePlane

— Michelle 🕊 (@teammeehann) June 10, 2022

Related: Patel tries to deport whistle-blowing ex-Iranian police officer to Rwanda

Tags: Priti PatelRwanda

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