{"id":27977,"date":"2024-04-16T17:50:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T17:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/pms-rwanda-plan-defeated-in-lords-again-forcing-mps-to-consider-four-changes\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T17:50:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T17:50:05","slug":"pms-rwanda-plan-defeated-in-lords-again-forcing-mps-to-consider-four-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/pms-rwanda-plan-defeated-in-lords-again-forcing-mps-to-consider-four-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"PM’s Rwanda plan defeated in Lords again – forcing MPs to consider four changes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New defeats for the government’s Rwanda bill in the House of Lords have set up a parliamentary showdown on Wednesday – forcing MPs to consider changes to Rishi Sunak’s stop the boats plan.<\/p>\n

Downing Street wants to get the bill – which declares Rwanda<\/strong><\/a> a safe country and stops appeals from asylum seekers being sent there on safety grounds – on the statute books this week.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the House of Commons stripped seven amendments from the bill<\/strong><\/a> previously imposed by the Lords. It was then debated again today.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

The government had been hoping to get the bill passed on Wednesday, but this depends on parliamentary arithmetic and whether peers propose more changes.<\/p>\n

A date for when the government wants to start flights is not set in stone – although ministers have said they want to do so within weeks<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Four fresh defeats for plan in the Lords<\/strong><\/p>\n

An attempt to add an amendment by Lord Vernon Coaker, a Labour frontbencher, was successful – by 258 votes to 233.<\/p>\n

This amendment aimed to force the bill to have “due regard” to international law and also the Children Act, Human Rights Act and Modern Slavery Act.<\/p>\n

It is a slightly more focused attempt to force the bill to comply with existing legislation.<\/p>\n

An amendment proposed by crossbencher and former judge Lord David Hope was also successful, with 266 peers voting for it, and 227 against.<\/p>\n

It sought to stop the government from declaring Rwanda safe until a report had been completed by a monitoring committee set up as part of the new treaty.<\/p>\n

The change also provided a pathway to remove the safe status via a report to the government by the same committee.<\/p>\n

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A third amendment, proposed by Labour backbencher Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, also succeeded, with 253 peers backing it and 236 opposing.<\/p>\n

This amendment is another attempt to introduce a way to appeal against the assertion that Rwanda is a safe country, and to provide a way to stop people being deported during appeals.<\/p>\n

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A fourth amendment, in the name of Labour’s Lord Des Browne, was also successful, with a vote of 275 to 218.<\/p>\n

Lord Browne’s amendment seeks to exempt those who served for or with the British armed forces from being sent to Rwanda.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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