<\/noscript> <\/div>\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz and German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser speak on May 10, 2023\u00a0in Berlin, prior to a summit of Scholz with state leaders focusing on the country’s refugee policy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In the UK, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has ordered ministers to begin migrant deportation flights to Rwanda within days of the scheme clearings its legal hurdles.<\/p>\n
In a highly unusual move, Sunak has established a Covid-style Cabinet committee to ensure that the Rwanda scheme can ‘hit the ground running’ immediately.<\/p>\n
The committee, which has been in place for a month, is already meeting twice a week to ensure there are no barriers to deportation flights beginning as soon as the Illegal Migration Bill clears Parliament, which is likely to be in September.<\/p>\n
One Cabinet source described the preparations for the first flight as ‘extraordinary’.<\/p>\n
‘No stone is being left unturned to make sure this goes smoothly,’ the source said.<\/p>\n
‘There is really no precedent for a Prime Minister to lead a committee of this sort on the implementation of a Bill has that has not even passed.<\/p>\n
‘That legislation will effectively ban Channel crossings. The expectation is it will pass in September and you will see flights beginning within days.<\/p>\n
‘People arriving on small boats will be detained on barges for a day or so and then put on a plane to Rwanda or another safe country. Some of them may not even set foot on land.<\/p>\n
‘To do that we have to have everything in place \u2013 the accommodation, the transport, the legal advice. All of that is underway now to make sure things can happen immediately.<\/p>\n
‘As soon as you start getting the first flights to Rwanda you will start to see a deterrent effect. Officials won’t accept it \u2013 ministers have had to push this all the way \u2013 but the PM is convinced.’<\/p>\n
The Court of Appeal is expected to rule this month on legal challenges to the scheme, after the High Court ruled in December that it is lawful.<\/p>\n
A Home Office source confirmed the scheme will not begin until all legal appeals in the UK have been exhausted.<\/p>\n
The PM has suggested he is willing to use the Parliament Act to overrule the Lords, but this would delay the legislation until next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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