Where does legal setback leave ministers?

For more than 20 years, successive governments have wrestled, often with limited success, with what to do about people who reach the northern coast of France, dreaming of a future in the UK.

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From clinging to lorries, to perilous crossings in small boats, home secretaries from David Blunkett to Priti Patel have cast around for solutions.

The magnetism for many of Britain hasn't diminished; in fact the opposite; there's been an exponential rise in small boat crossings in recent years.

The Rwanda policy comes at considerable cost; £120m as an upfront payment to Kigali, for a start, and while ministers say the number of people who might be sent there is "uncapped", it's thought it may number just hundreds per year.

It so far numbers zero - after confirmation just 20 minutes or so before the first flight was due to leave that all those asylum seekers due to be on it had obtained legal injunctions that granted them a reprieve.

The irritation from those in government is palpable and they are determined to press ahead with their plans.

They make the case that there is a moral compulsion to act, given the risks those crossing the Channel are subjecting themselves to and the costs are spiralling as the number of arrivals spiral too.

So, they conclude, a deterrent with shock value is deemed necessary.

Let's talk about two things: the law and public opinion.