Desperate times, desperate measures
The grounded flight to Rwanda only highlights the inhumanity of the policy.
At the time I sent out an email about the Rwanda asylum flight yesterday afternoon I have to admit that I assumed the flight would go ahead as planned even if it meant there was only one person aboard.
In fact the flight was grounded at a cost of approximately £500,000 to the taxpayer only minutes before it was due to take off. For opponents of the policy this was something of a deus ex machina. The final nail in the coffin, an intervention from the European Court of Human Rights, only happens in exceptional circumstances.