Rishi Sunak to demand reforms to orders blocking migrant flights in ECHR assembly

Rishi Sunak is ready to carry talks with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over reforms to injunctions used to dam migrant deportation flights throughout his Iceland journey at the moment.

The Prime Minister is heading to Reykjavik for a Council of Europe assembly.

During his time within the Icelandic capital, Mr Sunak will even maintain talks with ECHR President Síofra O’Leary over reforms to Rule 39 orders.

The so-called “pyjama injunctions” had been used late at evening to floor the Government’s first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda on the eleventh hour final yr.

In his summit with European leaders, the PM will name for coordinated motion on unlawful migration.

Ahead of the assembly, Mr Sunak stated the worldwide system for policing human trafficking is “not working”.

He added that the world’s most susceptible are “paying the price” for the failure to stop illegal migration.

The PM stated: “Every single point on each route used by people traffickers to smuggle people across our continent represents another community struggling to deal with the human cost of this barbaric enterprise.

“It may be very clear that our present worldwide system isn’t working, and our communities and the world’s most susceptible individuals are paying the worth.

“We need to do more to cooperate across borders and across jurisdictions to end illegal migration and stop the boats.

“I’m clear that as an lively European nation with a proud historical past serving to these in want, the UK can be on the coronary heart of this.”

Mr Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman have unveiled a host of measures to tackle the flow of asylum seekers using unofficial routes to come to Britain, as part of the Illegal Migration Bill which is currently at its committee stage in the House of Lords.

The Bill aims to send asylum seekers who arrive in Britain via unauthorised routes back home or to a third country such as Rwanda.

Downing Street said the Prime Minister will argue during his trip to the Council of Europe that individual measures, such as his policies designed to stop the boats, must go hand-in-hand with international co-operation to establish a global asylum framework fit for purpose.

The Council of Europe was established following the Second World War to uphold democracy and freedom throughout the continent.

Tuesday’s gathering is only the fourth time the institution, which counts 46 countries as members, has met since its founding in 1949.

Mr Sunak is due to address the summit before holding bilateral meetings with individual European leaders.

No 10 said the Conservative Party leader intends to discuss ECHR reform, including on Rule 39, when he meets court president Siofra O’Leary.

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