The PM's Rwanda Plan - Will the planes ever take off?
Problems in the Lords, further legal challenges and the alienation of centrist MPs and voters may await the prime minister.
Rishi Sunak succeeded in getting his key Rwanda bill through the House of Commons after a Tory rebellion failed to materialise. The bill aims to stop legal challenges against ministers' plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda. Dozens of Tories thought the bill was flawed and had threatened to rebel but in the end, only 11 voted against it.
The bill now goes to the House of Lords where it will face stiff opposition There, peers could try to derail the bill, or at least delay it. If it is passed, the unilateral declaration that Rwanda is a safe country to which asylum seekers can be deported will then almost certainly face a renewed judicial test.
All this begs the question, will the planes to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda ever take off? The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Political Correspondent, Damian Grammaticas, has the answers in this episode of our 5 Questions On podcast. (Image: PA)
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