UK’s immigration minister Robert Jenrick on Wednesday (Dec 6) resigned from his position, said Interior Minister James Cleverly after the government published draft legislation which was aimed at deploying the Rwandan migrant deportation scheme.
On being asked by a lawmaker in parliament to confirm if Jenrick had resigned, Cleverly said: “That has been confirmed.”
Jenrick, who had held the position of the immigration minister since the month of October last year, was not present in parliament as Cleverly delivered a statement on the proposed legislation.
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His resignation came after Rwanda released a statement warning that it would pull out of a treaty to accept migrants if the UK fails to respect international law.
Jenrick quit after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s administration published emergency legislation which was designed to make sure Rwanda is considered a safe country after Supreme Court judges in the UK deemed it wasn’t.
‘Strong disagreements’
In his resignation, Jenrick said that he had quit due to “strong disagreements with the direction” of the government’s policy on immigration.
He wrote a letter to PM Sunak saying that the proposed laws were “a triumph of hope over experience”.
“The stakes for the country are too high for us not to pursue the stronger protections required to end the merry-go-round of legal challenges which risk paralysing the scheme and negating its intended deterrent,” he wrote.
Cleverly on Tuesday (Dec 5) signed the new migrant treaty with Rwanda.
Speaking after the signing of the treaty, Cleverly said there was no “credible” reason to block the deportation flights and that he hoped that “we can now move quickly”, referring to the backlog of aliens.
Last month, the UK Supreme Court ruled that such a move violates the international human rights enshrined in domestic legislation. One of the biggest points raised by the court was that the asylum seekers would then be deported back to their home nations from where they had escaped the torturous conditions.
To mitigate the SC’s concerns, the new treaty states that anyone sent to Rwanda will be given permanent leave to remain there even if their asylum application failed, as per the Financial Times.
(With inputs from agencies)
