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Rishi Sunak has suffered his first defeat on his Rwanda plan by the House of Lords.
The Upper House handed the Government its first blow, voting against the ratification of the new treaty with Rwanda by 214 votes to 171.
This development offers the Government a pretty big indication that the Bill, due to be debated in the House next week, will not be passed.
This follows a report last week that recommended the treaty not be ratified, despite the Prime Minister urging peers not to “frustrate the will of the people”.
Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan has suffered its first blow
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The vote on the treaty is only advisory and cannot stop the treaty from being ratified, instead seeking to delay the ratification.
If the Commons were to vote the same way however, that would delay its ratification.
The debate was proposed by former attorney general and Labour peer Peter Goldsmith, who said the report had been supported unanimously by the cross-party International Agreements Committee.
The motion said: “This House resolves, in accordance with section 20 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, that His Majesty’s Government should not ratify the UK-Rwanda Agreement on an Asylum Partnership until the protections it provides have been fully implemented.”
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