Cleverly Pledges to Upgrade Rwanda Deal to Treaty Status to Appease Supreme Court

The home secretary, James Cleverly, has refused to dump the government’s controversial Rwanda policy following a UK Supreme Court ruling that it was unlawful and has said he plans to upgrade it to a treaty, “as soon as possible.” On Wednesday five UK Supreme Court judges unanimously agreed with the Court of Appeal ruling that the policy was unlawful in its present state. In the ruling, Lord Reed, the president of the Supreme Court, said the “legal test” was whether there were “substantial grounds” for believing asylum seekers sent to Rwanda would be at “real risk” of being sent back to the countries they came from where they originated and where they might face “ill treatment.”...