This is the Guardian.

The government's latest asylum policy reached a big moment on Tuesday night.

The first flight, which was then meant to carry only seven people to Rwanda,

was cancelled at the last minute because of an intervention by the European Court of Human Rights.

And now we're back to standard issue brexit attacks on foreign judges.

There's been a different ruling from ECHR. I think the public will be surprised that European judges

are overruling British judges, but that's a legal process.

It all looks chaotic, but there is a whiff of a very deliberate mess here.

The government has yet another chance to insist that it's acting tough on immigration.

Meanwhile, countries are the idea that brexit is done. Boris Johnson is picking a fight with the EU

over the Northern Ireland protocol. He wants to scrap key parts of an agreement that he signed.

And now the EU is taking legal action against the UK government.

Here's the European Commission Vice President Mara Sheffkovich.

Is this the post of out of no confidence, Johnson, era, we dread when his showmanship

and willingness to break anything in his way has hit peak levels?

I'm John Harris, and you'll listen to Politics Weekly UK for the Guardian.

Joining me today are the Guardian Columnist Raphael Behr and the Observer Columnist and Chief Leader

at Sonya Soda. Hello to you both. Hello, John. Hi, John.

Right, so one of the sort of minor political stories of the week were quite musing nonetheless.

There's been the association of the Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, with the word boring.

On Tuesday, there was a headline in the Times that said stop boring everyone to death,

Shadow Cabinet tells Starmer, and mere hours later, the Guardian went,

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