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Lawyers prepare for legal battles on behalf of individual asylum seekers challenging removal to east Africa
Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda deportation bill will become law after peers eventually backed down on amending it, opening the way for legal battles over the potential removal of dozens of people seeking asylum.
After a marathon battle of “ping pong” over the key legislation between the Commons and the Lords, the bill finally passed when opposition and crossbench peers gave way on Monday night.
The bill is expected to be granted royal assent on Tuesday. Home Office sources said they have already identified a group of asylum seekers with weak legal claims to remain in the UK who will be part of the first tranche to be sent to east Africa in July.
Sunak has put the bill, which would deport asylum seekers who arrive in the UK by irregular means to Kigali, at the centre of his attempts to stop small boats crossing the Channel.
Haven’t they said that they actually do want to investigate changing the system? But they’ve said they don’t want it necessarily to be PR unless that’s what people want I think they were going on about a possible referendum.
Don’t say we’ve already had a referendum on it because we haven’t. That wasn’t a choice between first past the post and proportional representation it was a choice between keeping first past the post or single transferable vote, which is basically not an improvement.
I think the reforms they’ve said have been pretty small so far. Reforming the lords. Hopefully when they’re going for a second term they’ll be more ambitious.