Tory right deliver legal rebuke to Sunak’s Rwanda plan

ERG lawyers conclude plans will not forestall court challenges, echoing concerns of goverment's own legal team

Rishi Sunak has been dealt a fresh blow over his Rwanda legislation as a legal assessment for the Tory right has concluded that the prime minister's plans are not fit for purpose.

Bill Cash, who chairs the star chamber" of lawyers for the European Research Group, wrote in the Daily Telegraph that at present" the legislation is not sufficiently watertight to meet the government's policy objectives" such as circumventing individual legal challenges by people seeking to remain in the UK.