Just had the rare pleasure of watching the Prime Minister's press conference to trumpet his stonking majority on the Rwanda Bill. He confirmed that if necessary - as the Bill provides - he will ignore any attempts by the ECtHR to thwart illegal extraditions to Rwanda. What he seems to be doing now is gambling his political future on 'the people' (assuming he means the electorate) being sufficiently xenophobic in sufficient numbers to outweigh any squeamishness about the UK becoming one of 'those countries' - e.g., Belarus and the Russian Federation - who don't recognise the mechanisms that have guaranteed human rights and fundamental freedoms for 70 years.
Is he right though? By which I mean is this an astute political punt, not is he acting on any higher principle - given he has the moral compunction of a virus.