Rishi Sunak's Rwanda bill has passed a crucial Commons vote with a majority of 43. The second reading of the legislation passed with313 MPs voting in favourand 270 against. It comes after right-wing Tory MPs said they could not support the bill, while One Nation Conservative moderates said ...
Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda bill has passed a crucial Commons vote with a majority of 44. The second reading of the legislation passed with313 MPs voting in favourand 269 against. It comes after right-wing Tory MPs said they could not support the bill, while One Nation Conservative moderates said...
But with new amendments being added once again by peers, the Commons will need to debate these changes and vote on them on Wednesday - with the Lords sitting later in the evening to consider whether to implement further amendments. The government had been hoping to get the bill ...
Despite suggestions right-wing Tories could kill the Safety of Rwanda Bill, the government won the vote with 320 approving it and 276 rejecting it. The Bill was introduced in a bid to satisfy the Supreme Court which ruled last year that asylum seekers could not be deported to Rwanda because...
The vote came a day after some 60 members of Sunak’s governing Conservatives rebelled in an effort to make the legislation tougher. The dissent cost Sunak two party deputy chairmen, who quit in order to vote against the government.
No one can pretend that there is a real electoral choice at the national level; or that participating in public life as a critic of government policy does not carry grave risks. Kagame won re-election in 2017 with a 99 percent share of the vote after securing a constitutional change that ...
where the two parts of the UK’s parliament – the House of Commons and the House of Lords – send legislation back and forth, has been going on for months. Every time the House of Lords makes amendments to the bill, the House of Commons, where Sunak has a majority, must vote to...
If the bill remains unchanged, it will be put to vote after the debate. If approximately 30 Tory Members of Parliament align with opposition parties in opposing the bill during its final House of Commons hurdle, there is a possibility of it being defeated, though only a small number of Cons...
In addition, three Conservative lawmakers, including two deputy chairmen of the party, resigned Tuesday evening over the vote on the amendments. Keir Starmer, leader of the main opposition Labour Party, said earlier Wednesday that Sunak has been "brutally exposed by his own MPs yet again" and...
In addition, three Conservative lawmakers, including two deputy chairmen of the party, resigned Tuesday evening over the vote on the amendments. Keir Starmer, leader of the main opposition Labour Party, said earlier Wednesday that Sunak has been "brutally exposed by his own MPs yet again" and...