First blood drawn as Rwanda plan suffers defeat in House of Lords
The unelected chamber supported a call that Parliament should not ratify the pact until ministers can show the east African country is safe.
The unelected chamber supported a call that Parliament should not ratify the pact until ministers can show the east African country is safe.
The latest polling suggests that our unelected PM could be out of step with what the British people actually want.
UK Statistics Authority chairman Sir Robert Chote said the ‘episode may affect public trust’.
The Prime Minister now faces a showdown with the House of Lords over his Rwanda plan.
Asked about the current political and legal obstacles around the deal witht he country, Paul Kagame said that it was "not Rwanda's problem".
"This blows a hole in the Government's feeble assertion that the Supreme Court was wrong, and that Rwanda is a safe country for refugees."
Labour accused the Home Secretary of appearing to ‘have lost thousands of people’ and failing to get a grip of the issue.
The Prime Minister faces crunch Commons votes this week, and he'll have to do it without the support of the deputy party chairman.
The vote will ask for any documents that show the cost of relocating asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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