UK MPs vote in favour of govt’s Rwanda migrants plan

By AFP UK lawmakers on Tuesday voted in favour of the government’s latest plans to send migrants to Rwanda, which has split Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s ruling Conservative party. A knife-edge parliamentary vote after an afternoon of debate saw 313 MPs vote for the so-called Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, with 269 against. The emergency bill, published only last week, is Sunak’s answer to a damning unanimous Supreme Court ruling in November that deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda was illegal under international law. It is part of wider government action to cut record levels of regular and irregular immigration, which is likely to be a key issue at next year’s election. But the issue is by no means […]