Rwanda Bill: the controversy explained
The Story
The Times
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
After two years of legal disputes and political debate, Parliament has approved the government's Rwanda bill to send asylum seekers from the UK to be processed in east Africa. The question now: when will the first plane to Kigali depart? And will this be a political win for Rishi Sunak who says he wants to 'stop the boats'?
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| 1:07.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. The eyes to the right, |
| 1:15.0 | to the right, 312, the nose to the left, 237. So the eyes have it, the eyes have it. |
| 1:25.0 | Unlock. |
| 1:27.0 | It was a ping-pong match like no other. |
| 1:31.0 | Is it a desperate and unpopular Prime Minister threatening keeps some of us |
| 1:37.0 | septogenarians up all night if we do not bow to his will. |
| 1:52.0 | Piers had been warned on Monday that Tory MPs would sit all night if that's what it took to pass the Rwanda bill. After months of political wrangling and five |
| 1:56.7 | bruising rounds of legislative ping pong, it was a weary House of Lords that |
| 2:02.3 | finally conceded just after midnight. |
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