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Watch live: Rwanda bill faces final parliamentary showdown in Commons

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Watch live as Rishi Sunak’s controversial Rwanda bill faces a final parliamentary showdown on Monday, 22 April.

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Both the House of Lords and the House of Commons are due to sit late into the night to get the bill passed.

Mr Sunak’s legislation is aimed at making the plan to send asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda legally watertight.

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The bill is intended to overcome the objections of the Supreme Court by forcing judges to regard Rwanda as a safe country for asylum seekers and allowing ministers to ignore emergency injunctions from the European Court of Human Rights.

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However, it has been subject to extensive parliamentary back-and-forth, with peers repeatedly blocking the bill with a series of amendments.

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The government has vowed Parliament will sit late into Monday night if necessary to pass the bill, which it sees as vital to the prime minister’s pledge to “stop the boats”.

The vote comes after the prime minister blamed Labour opposition to the plan for the delay, although his own government had not taken earlier opportunities to rush the legislation through parliament.



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