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Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shatz, the Spectators Daily Politics

podcast. I'm Katie Andrews and I'm joined by Katie Balls and James Heel.

So a sentence that has been building for some time that I'm finally going to say is that

Parliament has passed their Rwanda bill.

James, tell us what's happened and tell us what happened leading up to this moment.

Yeah, so last week government party managers were very kind of

bullish that they were going to get the Raimendale finally into law after about

five six months of debate and then actually turns out they couldn't last week and yesterday was then when they

decided no this week we actually really mean it we're going to get it through tonight and

there was a briefings around potentially Parliament sitting until four in the morning to get this

through a lot of ping pong as it then transpired

that it came down to two final amendments, Des Brown's amendment and Lord Anderson's amendment.

Des Brown's amendment the government threw a bit of concession on this was to do with

Afghan interpreters we can give the right to stay here in the UK and then on the second amendment

Lord Anderson's amendment this was set up an independent monitoring committee and I think

basically talking to some other people in and around the whips and

parliamentary management operation they were kind of earlier in the evening they were

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