Home Secretary James Cleverly described the bill's passing as a 'landmark moment in our plan to stop the boats'
Home Secretary James Cleverly described the bill's passing as a 'landmark moment in our plan to stop the boats'
Home Secretary James Cleverly described the bill’s passing as a “landmark moment in our plan to stop the boats”.Freedom from Torture, alongside Amnesty International and Liberty said the Bill poses “a significant threat to the rule of law” by undermining what protects people from an abuse of power by the state, and described Parliament as a “crime scene”.
The debate returned to the Lords at 11.45pm, where Lord Anderson of Ipswich said there would have been no point continuing the fight.The Government had said the Lords amendment was “almost identical” to the previous ones overturned by MPs. The new law aims to clear the way to send asylum seekers who cross the Channel in small boats on a one-way flight to Kigali.
“I promised to do what was necessary to clear the path for the first flight. That’s what we have done.Earlier, the Prime Minister claimed theTory rebels said Mr Sunak was in “cloud cuckoo land”The legislation and a treaty with Rwanda are intended to prevent further legal challenges to the stalled scheme after the Supreme Court ruled the plan was unlawful.
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