The High Court has backed an appeal by five Channel migrants challenging Shabana Mahmood’s one in, one out deal with France. The five claimed to be trafficking victims and argued that a rule change barring them from challenging their deportations was unlawful…
Mahmood had introduced the change to remove migrants’ right to appeal rulings that found them not to be trafficking victims to speed up deportation. Their barrister argued fundamental rights could not be sacrificed for expediency…
Fewer than one thousand small boat migrants have been deported to France under the deal. The UK accepted the same number from France. ECHR rearing its head again…
