The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 is likely to be a major part of Rishi Sunak’s legacy as prime minister should he, as is widely predicted, lose the general election in July, Professor Graham Zellick KC writes in this week’s NLJ
The reason, Zellick says, is ‘because this Act is unique’.
Zellick, a Senior Master of the Bench, writes: ‘This short Act—just 11 sections—is in itself an essay in British constitutional law. Indeed, one could build an entire introductory public law course around it.’ While, ‘in every respect, the Act violates constitutional norms’, it is also likely to be repealed before the first flight has taken off.
In this fascinating article, Zellick discusses the many curious facets of this extraordinary Act.
