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The bill was approved by the House of Commons last month, though only after 60 members of Sunak’s governing Conservatives rebelled to make the legislation tougher
The British government’s plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is fundamentally incompatible with the U.K.’s human rights obligations, a parliamentary rights watchdog said yesterday (Monday). The contentious bill is returned for debate in the House of Lords.
The bill was approved by the House of Commons last month, though only after 60 members of Sunak’s governing Conservatives rebelled to make the legislation tougher. The upper house can delay and amend legislation but can’t overrule the elected Commons.
Parliament’s unelected upper chamber is scrutinizing a bill designed to overcome the U.K. Supreme Court’s ruling that the Rwanda plan is illegal. The court said in November that the East African nation is not a safe country for migrants.
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The Safety of Rwanda Bill pronounces the country safe, makes it harder for migrants to challenge deportation, and allows the British government to ignore injunctions from the European Court of Human Rights that seek to block removals.
