Figures behind the campaign that prevented Rwanda’s deportation flight include an anti-Tory lawyer, a Corbynite Labor candidate and a hardline union leader.
Raza Husain QC, the chief lawyer who fought to prevent migrants from being deported to Rwanda, wrote a series of anti-Tory messages on social media, including a pledge of support for Jeremy Corbyn, and described conservatives as the “nasty party.”
Messages posted on Twitter by Husain, who works at Matrix Chambers, include: “Vote for these embarrassing bulls” and “Raab, Johnson: The Nasty Party #voteToriesout.” He also posted a rose image under a tweet from Corbyn, the former Labor leader.
Last month he retweeted a message from Chris Bryant, a Labor MP, criticizing Boris Johnson’s response to the Westminster party scandal. The message read: