Rishi Sunak's Rwanda deportation bill has been voted against in the House of Lords. In what is a major blow for the Government's plans, the house of unelected peers voted against ratifying the bill.
Peers voted by 214 to 171 in a move that could delay the agreement with the east African country. The vote was cast following a report by the Lords International Agreements Committee (IAC) that stated the treaty not be ratified until ministers could prove that Rwanda is safe.
The Government agreed the legally-binding treaty with Kigali in December, saying it addressed concerns raised by the Supreme Court about the possibility of asylum seekers deported to Rwanda then being transferred to a country where they could be at risk. Try MEN Premium now for FREE...
just click here to give it a go. But the cross-party committee said promised safeguards in the agreement are “incomplete” and must be implemented before it can be endorsed.
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