Five Supreme Court judges are set to decide the future of the Government’s flagship Rwanda deportation policy.

Justices at the UK’s highest court have spent about a month considering legal arguments over whether the plans are lawful or not with the ruling crucial for Rishi Sunak’s plans to tackle Channel crossings – a key plank of the Government’s migration policy.

The ruling will be handed down the day after former home secretary Suella Braverman accused Mr Sunak of betraying the nation by backtracking on a secret deal to ignore European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) rulings.

In a scathing departure letter, Ms Braverman claimed the Prime Minister had dodged “hard decisions” on how to “stop the boats”.

A new Rwanda treaty to pave the way for deportations of asylum seekers from the UK is likely to be drawn up if the Supreme Court rules that the scheme is unlawful.

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