Rwanda asylum policy goes back for appeal

The Government’s Rwanda asylum policy faces further delays after the High Court yesterday allowed an appeal against its legality.

The court had ruled in December that sending migrants to Rwanda to claim asylum in the central African state was lawful.

Charities Detention Action, Care4calais, the PCS union, which represents Border Force staff, and a group of asylum seekers had claimed the policy breached the Refugee Convention and it was unsafe to send migrants to Rwanda to claim asylum.

Lord Justice Lewis and Mr Justice Swift granted permission for the case to go to the Court of Appeal.