The Home Secretary last night defiantly vowed to plough ahead with her flagship migration plan despite a Strasbourg judge’s extraordinary 11th-hour intervention blocked the first flight.

One of the seven migrants expected to be transferred to Rwanda this evening has had his removal called off following an urgent injunction from the European Court of Human Rights.

Groups including SOAS Detainee Support and Solidarity Knows No Border network are understood to have been behind Monday’s emergency protest outside the Home Office.

Brandon Lewis said that the Government was determined to press ahead with the first of the controversial flights to east Africa, scheduled for Tuesday.

DAVID WILKES: A collection of Left-wing groups have made legal challenges in a bid to block ministers’ plan to send migrants to Rwanda.

A source said they heard the Prince of Wales express opposition to the Rwanda migrant policy several times in private, and that he was ‘more than disappointed’ by it.

The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) said that it had intercepted more than 300 migrants in two days – 254 on Sunday and as many as 100 yesterday – following an 11-day break in crossings.

French MP Pierre-Henri Dumont has warned that Priti Patel’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing could increase the number of people crossing the channel.

Britain has agreed to take refugees granted asylum status by Rwanda under Priti Patel’s landmark deal with the country, it has emerged. The detail could lead critics to reappraise the refugee agreement.

Gillian Triggs, a UNHCR assistant secretary-general, said the agency ‘strongly condemns outsourcing the primary responsibility to consider the refugee status’ as proposed by the PM.