The Shameless Farce of Boris Johnson’s Attempt to Send Refugees to Rwanda
A plane was on the runway when the European Court of Human Rights interceded. Now Britain may leave the court.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-shameless-farce-of-boris-johnsons-attempt-to-send-refugees-to-rwanda
The European court ruling prompted a wave of emergency appeals from the other six passengers. At around 10 p.m., half an hour before the plane was due to take off, there was no one left to take to Rwanda. Later, the jet, which had been hired at a reported cost of five hundred thousand pounds, flew back to Spain