MAKE NO MISTAKE! MIGRANT FLIGHTS TO TAKE OFF SOON

‘We're determined to deliver and ready for any scenario, says Home Office source

-  Michael Knowles

EVERY loophole is being closed to foil any attempt at blocking migrant flights to Rwanda, a Home Office source has revealed.

Preparations for the first deportations are being speeded up after Rishi Sunak said he was ready to pull out of the European Court of Human Rights to get Rwand planes off the ground.

Last night, a source close to Home Secretary James Cleverly confirmed the steely resolve of the Government to make the flights a reality, saying: "We are determined to deliver." The insider added: "Since Easter there TO GO: a flight has been a real step up in preparations to deliver on the Rwanda scheme.

"Preparations around basic logistics have been ongoing but it is also about being ready for any scenarios where others might try to frustrate or delay the process at the logistical stage. We are determined to deliver." In further good news for the crackdown, a Rwandan official insisted the country would take in migrants regardless of Britain's position with the European Court.

In his strongest comments yet on the ECHR, Mr Sunak insisted that protecting UK borders was "more important" than being a member of a foreign court.

Rwanda's foreign minister, Vincent Biruta, had said his country would not have been able to continue with the partnership to take asylum seekers if the UK had opted out of international human rights laws.