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Conspiracy or cock-up?

Conspiracy or cock-up?

Did ministers want the courts to block the Rwanda flight last night?

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Joshua Rozenberg
Jun 15, 2022
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It’s hard to tell whether the UK’s self-generated clashes with both European courts this week should be categorised as conspiracy or cock-up. I’ll leave for another piece the prospect of infringement proceedings at the EU’s court of justice over the Northern Ireland protocol bill. This piece is about proceedings yesterday at the entirely separate Europe…

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