The government’s Rwanda policy takes off
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at the Safety of Rwanda bill, which passed through parliament tonight after a back and forth with the Lords. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says it will allow his government to put asylum seekers on flights in “10-12 weeks”. Chris joins Adam to discuss how we got here, and what happens next. And presenter Huw Edwards has resigned from the BBC on “medical advice from his doctors”. He has been off air since last July, after reports were published which claimed he paid a young person for explicit images. Adam speaks to culture & media editor, Katie Razzall. You can join our Newscast online community here:
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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Joe Wilkinson and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Matt Hewitt. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm recording this bit of this episode of newscast at home just before midnight on |
| 0:09.2 | Monday night. |
| 0:10.4 | And the reason it's coming to you so late and from such a weird location is because |
| 0:14.0 | parlance been sitting late tonight considering the government's Rwanda legislation. |
| 0:18.4 | This is the new law that will state Rwanda is a many times on newscasts. Anyway we've been going through this ping-pong thing which |
| 0:34.3 | actually is the name for the process in Parliament where the House of Lords makes |
| 0:38.1 | changes that the House of Commons then rejects and then the House of Lords tries |
| 0:41.9 | again and the House of Commons rejects them again. |
| 0:44.0 | Anyway that process has now come to an end which means that bill will become an act in other |
| 0:50.0 | words a piece of law that is passed which is a kind of big milestone for the government |
| 0:55.0 | certainly in this in this whole Rwanda story so now you can listen to the |
| 0:59.3 | episode of newscast we recorded a little bit earlier and even though Chris and I didn't know exactly |
| 1:03.8 | what the outcome was going to be we had a pretty good idea helped long by Chris getting some |
| 1:08.5 | texts on his phone that explained what was going on as we were sitting, waiting and watching. |
| 1:14.6 | So actually it's quite fun to just hear the parliamentary process unfold in real time. |
| 1:19.4 | And of course the principles of the Rwanda legislation, the government's hopes, the logistics around it, |
| 1:26.0 | and there's still existing challenges to it, they don't change irrespective of what was going on in Parliament. |
| 1:32.0 | So it's definitely worth listening to this episode of... change irrespective of what was going on in Parliament. |
| 1:32.6 | So it's definitely worth listening to this episode of Newscast. |
| 1:35.7 | Newscast. |
| 1:36.5 | Newscast from the BBC. |
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