High Court Deems Rwanda Guidance Lawful as Tories Lose Election

Civil servants can’t boycott the government’s deportation orders on the ground that they contradict international law, the High Court ruled on Friday. The court dismissed a legal challenge against government guidance on Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda deportation policy hours after the prime minister conceded election defeat. The challenge, brought in May by the FDA trade union, was against government guidance published in April that says civil servants are obligated to carry out the home secretary’s decision not to comply with an intervention by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), known as a “Rule 39 indication,” and not to frustrate the implementation of policies once decisions are taken....