The Guardian view on the Tories and Rwanda: speeding up deportations looks desperate | Editorial

Arrangements in Rwanda, including the 50-room “ Hope hostel ” near Kigali airport, have been made in accordance with the deal signed two years ago.

In 2021, senior UK officials called for “investigations into allegations of extrajudicial killings, deaths in custody, enforced disappearances and torture”.

Earlier this year, the journalist Michela Wrong wrote about the “tide of vilification” that followed the publication of her book about the country’s leader, Paul Kagame.

In cases where people face “real, imminent and foreseeable risk of serious irreversible harm”, deportation orders should be blocked by courts.

Perhaps in anticipation of the Rwanda policy’s failure, politicians further to the right than Mr Sunak’s backbenchers are trialling still harsher and more extreme demands.

Last week, Ben Habib, a senior figure in Reform UK, said he believed passengers on small boats should be left to drown rather than be rescued.