Rishi Sunak caught misleading us about ‘stopping the boats’ AGAIN
Check out the ‘context note’ beneath Rishi Sunak’s latest tweets about ‘stopping the boats’:
Following today’s ruling, I’m taking the extraordinary step of introducing emergency legislation to confirm Rwanda is safe.
I will not allow a foreign court, like the European Court of Human Rights, to block these flights.
Here’s the plan in full ⬇️
1/5 pic.twitter.com/6MVqYWS65O— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) November 15, 2023
“Non-refoulement” is “the practice of not forcing refugees or asylum seekers to return to a country in which they are liable to be subjected to persecution”.
It is indeed a fundamental principle of international law, meaning that the UK is prohibited from sending refugees who come here to another country from which they may be returned to the country from which they originally came.
This Writer can’t see how changing UK law will change our obligation in international law.
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