UK to ask European Court of Human Rights to reconsider Rwanda flight decision

Home Secretary Priti Patel and Rwandan minister for foreign affairs Vincent Biruta, sign a migration and economic development partnership (Flora Thompson/PA)

The UK will “imminently” ask the European Court of Human Rights to reconsider a measure that blocked some asylum seekers from being removed on the first planned Rwanda deportation flight, the High Court has been told.

The expected first flight in the controversial policy was grounded on June 14 after 11th-hour legal rulings, including from the Strasbourg-based court.