Just last week Rishi Sunak held a special Downing Street press conference to warn peers not to ignore ‘the will of the people’ and block his Rwanda plan. Fast forward a few days and Sunak’s warning appears to have fallen on deaf ears, with the Prime Minister suffering his first Lords defeat on the topic before the Safety of Rwanda Bill has even begun its journey through the Lords.
This evening peers voted to delay the ratification of the international treaty between the UK and Rwanda, the legally binding agreement signed with Rwanda last month. By 214 votes to 171, peers backed the motion that demands the government delays any deportation flights to Rwanda until agreed safeguards have been put in place and shown to be working.
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