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Downing Street refused to confirm that flights would take off by Spring as previously promised
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Peers’ efforts to protect Afghan special forces from deportation blocked in Commons
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Defence secretary attacks Labour over bill, saying party has ‘locked’ parliament’s ability to pass law and says RAF planes could be used
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Ministers have designed legislation to get round legal objections and say flights could take off within weeks – but a potential stumbling block remains
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Legislation to go back to Commons after peers stand up for rights of Afghans and scrutiny of refugees’ treatment
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Downing Street has refused any concessions and insists flights will take off by summer
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Labour Lords will attempt to force changes to the government’s rwanda Bill
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Keir Starmer accuses prime minister and Lord Ashcroft of ‘smearing’ Angela Rayner as police probe widens
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Paul Kagame flew to UK for Champions League match while national police told citizens to restrict activities including football
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Lords also press ministers to allow independent rwanda monitoring as deportation bill returns to Commons
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Peers pass four amendments inserting safeguards into bill, including exempting migrants who helped British troops
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Legislation to return to the Commons with changes that would ensure conformity with UK and other law and protect claimants
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Watch live as Rishi Sunak’s controversial rwanda asylum bill returns to House of Lords on Tuesday (16 April) after MPs rejected a series of amendments.
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With the bill expected to gain royal assent this week, the UK will send Kigali the latest payment of £50m despite no migrants having been sent to the east African nation
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Watch as a Home Office minister repeatedly dodges questions on whether the government has an airline “ready” to take asylum seekers to rwanda. Laura Farris appeared on Sky News on Tuesday 16 April to discuss Rishi Sunak’s flagship deportation b ...
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Peers were urged to “calm down” and allow the government’s rwanda deportation legislation to progress, as MPs voted to overturn amendments made by the House of Lords on Monday 15 April. The Safety of rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bil ...
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rwanda Bill will now return to the Lords with ministers promising flights will take off ‘within weeks’
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MPs voted through plans on Monday and bill is expected to become law within days
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Rishi Sunak braced for fresh round of wrangling over plan that is due to cost taxpayers £1.8m per deportee