The Rwanda plan for deporting illegal immigrants is dead

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that sending immigrants to Rwanda is unlawful. Yet Rishi Sunak still wants to hang on to the idea and find another way round the judges' decision. But the whole idea of sending immigrants to Rwanda was always a totally daft and uncharitable way of dealing with the so-called boat problem - the thousands of people who come to the UK in boats across the Channel. It was an idea espoused with great vigour by Suella Braverman, the now deposed Home Secretary. You would have thought that Sunak who has a reputation for being a decent human being, would have finally got the message that sending people to Rwanda should be abandoned. But ths government is so desperate to find a solution to the boat problem that it will grab on to anything that offers even a remote chance of succeeding. It wasn't that long ago that they wanted to send immigrants to Albania. That came to nothing. Sunak should now show a bit of common and humane sense and announce that Rwanda is no longer an option. Going against the judges of the Supreme Court would be a grave error.