Raab plans law to ignore European rulings blocking Rwanda deportations

The deputy prime minister wants to introduce a Bill of Rights to ignore European Court of Human Rights judgments blocking removal flights to Rwanda.

Dominic Raab is introducing the proposed legislation, which would also increase deportations of foreign criminals, to parliament on Wednesday after the court in Strasbourg disputed the government’s heavily-criticised policy of sending asylum seekers to the east African nation.

The deputy prime minister wants the successor to the Human Rights Act to assert that British courts do not always need to follow the European Court of Human Rights.

Instead, the legislation states the Supreme Court in London is the ultimate decision-maker on human rights issues.

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The bill would create a permission stage in court where claimants must show they have suffered significant damage before their case can go ahead, in order to reduce…