Boris Johnson's government may never have intended the Rwanda flight to take off

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : But by the 2017 manifesto (under May), that commitment had been dialled back to: "We will not repeal or replace the Human Rights Act while the process of Brexit is underway."
51% : Johnson himself, having dashed the hopes of many, is now looking to exploit fears perennially felt in parts of Britain - of asylum and European rule.
45% : Johnson now sees a fight with the ECHR as one of the few political battles he has a chance of winning in the near future: many voters want control over Britain's borders to be exercised by elected politicians in Britain, not by unelected judges in a European court (the UK is a signatory to the ECHR as a member of the Council of Europe; the court is unconnected to the European Union).

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