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[โ€“] thehatfox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sunak appears to be still pushing ahead, and has claimed there will be more negotiations with Rwanda to try make the policy work. He has also said:

If it becomes clear that our domestic legal frameworks or international conventions are still frustrating the plans at that point, I am prepared to change our laws and revisit those international relationships.

So it looks the ECHR is also now in Sunak's crosshairs.

[โ€“] tankplanker@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

May raised a good point that just removing ECHR doesn't actually make Rwanda lega by itself, we would still have to make further changes to do so. However I do not actually think that matters to them as ECHR has always been the goal here, Rwanda never really scaled to be a proper solution to the problem even if it wasn't unethical and was legal. The entire small boats issue has always been a Tory manufactured excuse to drum up outrage.