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Coffee House Shots

Is the Rwanda flight block a problem for No.10?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

the first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda was stalled just before takeoff after a late intervention from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). As Priti Patel returned to the Commons to defend the policy, many Tory MPs are furious at the prospect of the courts taking precedent over government legislation. Could this lead to the UK leaving the ECtHR?

Also on the podcast, is Keir Starmer too boring? After growing accusations, the Labour leader has urged his shadow cabinet to stop calling him boring and focus on returning to government.

Cindy Yu is joined by Katy Balls and James Forsyth

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0:00.0

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0:16.6

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots for Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

0:20.6

I'm Cindy U and I'm joined by Katie Gawes and James Versailles.

0:24.1

So the government is not ruling out coming out of the open court of human rights

0:28.5

in response to yesterday's flight to Rwanda not having anyone on it by the end of the evening.

0:34.6

Katie, tell us what's going on with that.

0:37.4

So last night, I think early evening, it seemed as though this flight would be going ahead,

0:42.0

but with a very reduced number of people. There were seven individuals who were supposed to be

0:46.5

on the plane. There had been appeals in the UK courts in the day for four of those of people

0:51.8

and they had all failed. Then around 7.30pm, you had judges in Strasbourg,

0:58.7

for the EHRC, ultimately have their own judgment in the case of what are those men.

1:04.5

And they found that there was a case for appeal. That was then used by other

1:09.1

civil space beyond the plane to say, well, we now have a case for a further appeal

1:13.5

and it led to the government pulling the flight. So did not take off.

1:17.4

Now, I think what's interesting here is clearly as a domination in the news today,

1:21.8

but I think you would think on paper the government not managing to complete a policy that they've

1:27.9

been talking about for some time is bad news for the government. I don't think it's quite so

1:31.4

simple here. It's been clear for weeks now that the government, when it comes to this policy,

1:36.3

wants to have a fight. Look at how everyone drove the weekend. It's been spoken about earlier

1:40.2

that we couldn't spot cars to Prince Charles, allegedly saying the policy was appalling.

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