Emergency legislation stops short of leaving European convention on human rights and will infuriate Tory hard right

Rishi Sunak aims to block UK human rights laws in an effort to revive the government’s faltering plans to send people seeking asylum to Rwanda.

An emergency bill published on Wednesday will assert that ministers have the power to ignore judgments that come from Strasbourg while stopping short of leaving or “disapplying” the European convention on human rights.

It will, however, seek to disapply relevant parts of the UK’s Human Rights Act in asylum claims.

Critics from the Conservative right have said that such a move raises the possibility that it will still be open to individual legal challenges.