SIR Christopher Meyer has hit out at the Government’s decision to ground the deportation flight to Rwanda last week as “absurd”.

The former UK ambassador to the US said if he had been a Government adviser during last week’s dispute he would have urged Ministers not to be put off by the European order.

Speaking to Alastair Stewart on GB News today (SAT), Sir Christopher said: “The notion that a single judge can issue an interim order, which by the way was not a definitive order and which was not a reading of the courts, which then stops the flight it’s absurd. It’s ludicrous. If I’d have been an advisor I’d have said fly the bloody plane anyway. I’ve urged them (the Government) to stick with the English constitution and to stick with the English common law. We’d been through due process on this matter. The Europeans hadn’t.”

Sir Christopher’s comments come after the Home Secretary herself branded the decision “absolutely scandalous” and politically motivated, according to the Home Secretary.
Judges at the (ECHR) on Tuesday granted an injunction that resulted in a chartered aircraft to Kigali being unable to depart Wiltshire.

“You’ve got to look at the motivation,” Priti Patel told The Daily Telegraph.
“How and why did they make that decision? Was it politically motivated? I’m of the view that it is, absolutely.

“The opaque way this court has operated is absolutely scandalous. That needs to be questioned.

“We don’t know who the judges are, we don’t know who the panel are, we haven’t actually had a judgment – just a press release and a letter saying we can’t move this person under rule 39.
“They’ve not used this ruling previously, which does make you question the motivation and the lack of transparency.”
Boris Johnson said ministers remained confident the policy was lawful and that the Government was determined to press ahead with the the deportation flights.
Speaking to reporters at RAF Brize Norton after returning from Ukraine, Mr Johnson said: “Every single court in this country said that there was no obstacle that they could see.

“There was this weird last-minute hiccup we had with Strasbourg. Let’s see where we get with that. I have read some interesting legal commentary about that.

“But we are very confident in the lawfulness of what we are doing and we are going to pursue the policy.”

The last-ditch legal rulings sparked calls by some Tory MPs to pull Britain out of the ECHR which the court rules on, though it appears the Government is not willing to take such a drastic step.