As final parliamentary debates get under way, PM acknowledges dropping spring start to policy despite earlier promises
The Rwanda deportation scheme will not begin until the summer, Rishi Sunak admitted on Monday, acknowledging a further delay to the policy even as MPs and peers began
Sunak has put the Rwanda scheme at the centre of his promise to stop people crossing the Channel in small boats, despite warnings that even the threat of deportation would not deter desperate people from attempting to do so. “If Labour peers had not spent weeks holding up the bill in the House of Lords to try to block these flights altogether, we would have begun this process weeks ago,” he said.
The government succeeded in defeating both amendments in the face of a rebellion from some Tory MPs who said they would have strengthened the bill. However, Labour has said it will not kill the bill entirely in the Lords, reducing the incentive for the government to offer last-minute concessions to any potential rebels.
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