MPs voted to overturn amendments made by the Lords to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill.
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 Lords.
The Bill seeks to compel judges to regard the east African country as safe in a bid to clear the way to send asylum seekers who cross the Channel in small boats on a one-way flight to Rwanda. Speaking in the Commons, Conservative MP Sir Bill Cash said: “The real question now is, let’s get this Bill done, let’s get the House of Lords to calm down a bit, let us also at the same time wait for what is inevitably going to be another claim and then see what the judgment of the Supreme Court is on the wording – providing it is clear and unambiguous – of this Bill.
Opening the debate, Home Office minister Michael Tomlinson said: “Here we are, back again, debating the same issues and amendments we have already rejected. We’re not quite at the point yet of completing each others’ sentences, but we are almost there.”
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