Rwanda Flights CANCELLED

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Supreme Court has ruled that the government’s Rwanda asylum plan is unlawful. But Rishi Sunak says the government are not giving up on the plan. How did the Supreme Court reach this ruling? And what could Rishi Sunak do next? Adam and Chris are joined by political correspondent Alex Forsyth and home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani to talk it all through. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Gray with Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, we're bringing you a bonus episode of newscast because at last the Supreme Court
0:09.9	has ruled on the government's policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda so that they can be processed in the Rwandan asylum system.
0:18.0	Lots of observers had been predicting that the government would lose and those observers were right because the Supreme Court ruled
0:25.3	unanimously that at the moment the Rwanda scheme is not legal. Here is a bit of how Lord Reed
0:31.6	the President of the Supreme Court summed up his decision.
0:35.3	Nevertheless, asking ourselves whether there were substantial grounds for believing
0:40.8	that a real risk of reformant existed at the relevant time,
0:45.0	we have concluded that there were.
0:48.0	The changes needed to eliminate the risk of reformant
0:52.0	may be delivered in the future, but they have not
0:55.9	been shown to be in place now.
1:01.0	The Home Secretary's appeal is therefore dismissed.
1:05.8	The court will now adjourn.
1:07.0	Yeah, we watch that live and at one point the live stream from the Supreme Court sort of paused a bit,
1:14.0	which made me think there were lots of people
1:16.0	who wanted to know about what they were saying.
1:18.0	And that means there's lots for us to talk about
1:20.0	on this extra emergency episode of Newscast.
1:23.6	Newscast.
1:24.6	Newscast from the BBC.
1:26.2	Why can't people buy a house?
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