Priti Patel hopes the flight will deter people from crossing the Channel in small boatsThe first flight scheduled to take migrants to Rwanda can go ahead as planned on Tuesday, the High Court has ruled. Campaigners lost an emergency application for an injunction calling for all flights to be grounded until the High Court had decided whether the plan was lawful. SponsoredMr Justice Swift rejected the claim, brought by lawyers on behalf of two migrants due to be on the flight, the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), and the charities Care4Calais and Detention Action. More than 10,000 people have crossed the Channel in small boats this year DANIEL LEAL/AFP/GETTY IMAGESThey claimed that the policy breached international and domestic law on seven counts, said Rwanda was not a safe country to remove asylum seekers to and claimed that those sent there risked being removed to countries that allow torture, contravening Article 3 of the

Source: The Times June 10, 2022 17:34 UTC