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Lords pass five amendments to Rwanda bill in heavy defeat for Rishi Sunak (www.theguardian.com)

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Rishi Sunak has suffered his heaviest defeat in the House of Lords after the archbishop of Canterbury and former Conservative ministers joined forces with the opposition to force through five amendments to the Rwandan deportation bill.

The string of government setbacks, most passed by unusually large margins of about 100 votes, means the legislation, which aims to clear the way to send asylum seekers on a one-way flight to Kigali, will have to go back to the Commons.

The prime minister has previously warned the unelected chamber against frustrating the “will of the people” by hampering the passage of his safety of Rwanda (asylum and immigration) bill, which has been approved by MPs.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The irony of an unelected prime minister threatening an unelected chamber is palpable.

Interesting that he knows it's the will of the people despite having no possible way of determining that. There hasn't been a referendum, there hasn't been an election with this on the manifesto, there has been multiple protests about it but apparently they don't count. Despite all the evidence, it is the will of the people.

Anyone who disagrees with the will of the people is not "the people", even if the majority of people disagree with "the will of the people". Interesting that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

We just have to put up with this until the GE and then the new Labour government will dripythis policy as one of the first things it will do. Keir has said as much already.... wait, I think he has 🤔? He has said he'll drop this policy, right? Right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

That was last week, no one knows what U turns he will make next week, not even Sir Starmer himself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

He has consistently said he'll drop it. Even before the Supreme Court said it was illegal, he said he'd drop it regardless of its legality. Labour have voted against it at every reading.

Labour's plans for tackling immigration are actually more popular than the Tories', so it'd be pretty wild to turn around and support the scheme for electoral reasons.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

He was a barrister who spent most of his legal career working on human rights issues. My hope is that everything Kier says or does, that may suggest any similarity or alignment to Tory policy, is to minimise focus of right wing media and the last 20% of people who still support the current Tory establishment. Fingers crossed anyway.