The UK government will submit a bill on Wednesday that would allow the country to override the European Court of Human Rights decision. Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab denies that the country is pulling out of the European courts, but once the new law goes into effect it will no longer be the supreme body.
The reason for the new bill is a legal obstacle that European courts have put forward against the UK government’s plans to fly illegal migrants to Rwanda. Agreements have been made with African countries for this.
However, forced evictions have led to lawsuits and a human rights court in Strasbourg blocking the migrants’ first flight to Kigali. Home Affairs Minister Priti Patel called this a political assessment. If the new law is passed, the UK Supreme Court will now have the final say.
The plan to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda was the result of a large influx of migrants by boat across the Strait. This year the counter already stands for about ten thousand migrants who have crossed by boat and sometimes hundreds come ashore in one day by boat.
The European Court of Human Rights is separate from the European Union and was established to promote compliance with the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. Britain left the EU early last year after Britain voted for Brexit in 2016, but EU membership has nothing to do with the court in Strasbourg.
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