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The Safety of Rwanda Bill should make it through the House of Lords “fairly fast”, a minister has claimed this morning after Rishi Sunak’s flagship legislation cleared its House of Commons stages last night. Chris Philp, a Home Office minister, insisted the government would aim for deportation flights to start “as soon as possible”. He… Read more »
MPs voted 320-276 this evening — a majority of 44 — in favour of the government’s Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill at its commons third reading stage. It came after 61 Conservative rebels backed former immigration minister Robert Jenrick’s Amendment 23 during the bill’s committee stage. The amendment sought to block last-minute injunctions… Read more »