A government plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful, the High Court has ruled.
Lord Justice Lewis said the controversial policy introduced under Boris Johnson was “consistent with refugee convention”.
However, he said the home secretary should look at people’s “particular circumstances” before deporting them.
The government announced its Rwanda policy back in April, which would see some asylum seekers who had reached the UK via small boat Channel crossings deported to the central African country to have their cases processed.
The then-home secretary Priti Patel said it would help deter people from making the dangerous journey, but human rights campaigners, charities and opposition parties condemned the plan as inhumane.
The first flight was set to take off in June with four people on board but was halted after a number of legal challenges, with the European Court of Human Rights ruling the plan carried “a real risk of irreversible harm”.
However, both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss insisted they would push ahead with the policy when they took the keys to Number 10.