This is the moment Thérèse Coffey mistakes rwanda’s capital for another country while hitting out at Labour’s shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper. Ms Coffey made the mistake in front of MPs in Parliament on Wednesday (17 January). Aiming her c ...

Rishi Sunak has praised the Conservative Party for “coming together” to pass his rwanda bill. The Prime Minister saw his legislation pass its third reading in the House of Commons on Wednesday night (17 January), after a would-be backbench revolt ...

Leading barrister signals House of Lords plans to revise bill, saying government is ‘elevating itself above the law’

Majority of mutinous Tories retreat to plot another day as just 11 vote against PM's flagship policy

The prime minister will update journalists on the progress of his immigration policy

Ex-Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson said he was going to vote against the policy but Labour MPs were ‘giggling and laughing and taking the mick’

Prime minister’s controversial deportation bill is passed with a majority of 44

Even if Rishi Sunak’s bill scrapes through, the Conservative right have again made their agenda all anyone’s talking about, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Both Rishi Sunak and James Cleverley have privately denounced the rwanda bill in the past. Yet here they are, backing it…

Prime minister expected to talk about rwanda bill after it cleared Commons as Tory ‘rebels’ abandoned protest

In today’s newsletter: The controversial rwanda bill is back in the Commons – what happens next could shape the party’s future

Paul Kagame also says he would be happy for the scheme to be scrapped

As tensions in the Middle East continue to rise, this week John Harris speaks to Niku Jafarnia of Human Rights Watch about the regional conflicts. The rwanda bill passed its third reading and Pippa Crerar, the Guardian’s political editor, reveal ...

Editorial: Rishi Sunak’s weak leadership has given a small, hardline faction too much purchase on the national debate

Government says it intends to change rules to order officials to follow ministerial decisions contrary to Strasbourg injunctions

The third reading of the Safety of rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) bill passed by 320 votes to 276, a majority of 44

Flagship policy passes committee stage after tense lead-up in which Tory divisions came to the fore

 

 

Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith stepped down in order to vote for the two amendments