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.
MPs and ministers called for the UK to withdraw from European Court of Human Rights after it intervened to stop an Iraqi citizen being deported - just before the flight was due to take off.
Peter Bone made a combative speech in the Commons as campaigners revealed that just seven of the original 130 people notified are still set to be on board.
The Boeing 767 - operated by Spanish charter firm Privilege Style - was seen landing at the Ministry of Defence testing site in Wiltshire earlier today.