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Rishi Sunak vowed to defy foreign judges and push ahead with deportations to Rwanda.<\/p>\n
He announced emergency laws designating it a safe country after Britain\u2019s Supreme Court ruled the plans to remove illegal migrants unlawful.<\/p>\n
But he also issued a warning to European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg that he will do \u201cwhat is necessary\u201d to make the plan a reality if it throws more obstacles in the way later on.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister said he still hopes the first flights will take off in the spring despite \u00adyesterday\u2019s setback.<\/p>\n
Don’t miss… <\/strong> Sunak\u2019s Tories have become \u2018talk a lot but do nothing\u2019 party – Carole Malone[LATEST] <\/strong><\/p>\n He announced the emergency legislation to stop the \u201cmerry-go-round\u201d of domestic legal challenges.<\/p>\n The PM said: \u201cWe must be \u00adhonest about the fact that even once Parliament has changed the law here at home, we could still face challenges from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.<\/p>\n \u201cI told Parliament earlier today that I\u2019m prepared to change our laws and revisit those international relationships to remove the \u00adobstacles in our way. So let me tell everybody now, I will not allow a foreign court to block these flights. If the Strasbourg court chooses to intervene against the expressed wishes of Parliament, I am prepared to do what is necessary to get flights off. I will not take the easy way out.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause I fundamentally do not believe that anyone thinks the founding aim of the European Convention on Human Rights was to stop a sovereign Parliament removing illegal migrants to a country deemed to be safe in parliamentary statute and binding international law.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Sunak said if Parliament declares \u201cunequivocally\u201d that Rwanda is safe, it should see off any further \u201cdomestic barriers\u201d.<\/p>\n But he refused to guarantee that any illegal migrant would have actually been sent to the east African nation by the next election.<\/p>\n Tory right-wingers were incensed at the latest legal setback to a \u00adpolicy that has the backing of the Commons.<\/p>\n Deputy party chairman Lee Anderson said it was time to ignore the rulings and start the \u00addeportation flights regardless.<\/p>\n Mr Sunak said he \u201cabsolutely\u201d shared the \u201cfrustrations that my colleagues and, indeed, people across the country\u201d have about
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