Enver Solomon: Britain’s asylum system fails to show any humanity

It took a last-minute intervention by the European Court of Justice to halt Britain's Rwanda policy but what happens now?

Protesters at the perimeter of MoD Boscombe Down, near Salisbury, where a Boeing 767 aircraft was set to take asylum seekers to Rwanda. 

Who knows what lies in store for the men who received a last-minute reprieve from being shipped thousands of miles across the globe to Rwanda?

The British government still wants to press ahead: the British foreign secretary Priti Patel pronounced herself disappointed. But have no doubt, Tuesday night’s botched attempt — halted after a legal injunction from the European Court of Human Rights — is a watershed moment: in government policymaking, in Britain’s global standing and for everyone's collective moral compass.