Rishi Sunak handed Rwanda scheme court victory just as he resigns as prime minister [Video]

Rishi Sunak’s flagship immigration policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda cleared a legal huddle in the High Court just as the prime minister resigned as prime minister.

Sir Keir Starmer, who is celebrating a landslide election victory, has pledged to scrap the plan, which would have seen failed asylum seekers deported to the east African country.

In a decision issued on Friday, the High Court ruled that guidance from ministers which tells civil servants to carry out removals to Rwanda was lawful, despite rulings from Strasbourg.

The FDA trade union, which represents senior civil servants, had brought legal action over the relationship of the Civil Service Code with the outgoing government’s Safety of Rwanda Act.

The union said a new rule that stated ministers can ignore European Court of Human Rights …