The day after the court stopped the first deportation flight to Rwanda, the British government said it was "disappointed" but also determined to continue with its new asylum policy.

"The Home Office is currently preparing the next flight," Labor Minister Therese Coffey said on Wednesday.

The government will continue trying to decide legal challenges in its favor, she announced.

At the same time, she was alienated by the order of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which had prevented the departure at the last minute.

"I don't know of any ruling from the ECtHR that came that quickly and I suppose the public is surprised that European judges are overruling British judges," she said.

Jochen Buchsteiner

Political correspondent in London.

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In the four days before the ECtHR's verdict, the High Court, the Court of Appeal and finally the Supreme Court in London had rejected urgent requests to stop the deportation flights.

The fact that the judges at the Strasbourg ECtHR "overruled the country's three highest courts" was described in the government as "hair-raising".

The experience could now accelerate the debate on a new relationship with the ECtHR and the European Convention on Human Rights.

Johnson had said on Tuesday that it could "very well" that laws would be changed in this regard.

The government has been planning for some time to narrow down Article 8 of the Convention, which stipulates a right to family and private life, by means of a national law.

Recently, however, there was no longer any talk of terminating the convention.

Coffey gave the impression on Tuesday that the government would not react at all for the time being.

Several of the asylum seekers concerned had opposed their deportation in the past few weeks with reference to Article 8.

They are allowed to stay in the UK until their case is resolved in court.

The Strasbourg judges' order on Tuesday was based on the UK government's failure to meet a three-week deadline after the completion of the legal process.

The ECtHR is an institution of the Council of Europe, not the European Union.

The new asylum policy, which was mainly drawn up by Home Secretary Priti Patel, provides that asylum seekers who have made their way across the Channel to the English coast are first registered in Great Britain.

If their recognition is deemed unlikely and they do not belong to a "vulnerable" group, they should continue to seek asylum in Rwanda.

The government in Kigali has pledged to guarantee the migrants and refugees a fair trial and a "decent" life in safety.

She is paid by London to handle the procedures.

While the government speaks of a "moral" policy because it destroys the business model of the smugglers' gangs and thus discourages migrants from the life-threatening canal crossings, their critics attest the opposite.

The government is to blame for the "failure" of its policy, said Labor MP Yvette Cooper on Wednesday.

"She pushed through a policy that she knew was unworkable, unethical and incredibly expensive just because she wanted to create an uproar and blame others." The Anglican bishops also opposed the policy on Tuesday.