British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has once again saved a crucial vote in Parliament in his bid to protect deportations to Rwanda of migrants arriving in the UK illegally. Yesterday, with less tension than in the first vote last December, the British Prime Minister received sufficient support from his group to address the Rwandan security bill, which seeks to prevent new judicial restrictions on deportations. However, the text faced significant opposition from the hard-line wing of his party, which tried unsuccessfully to introduce amendments to tighten the rule and provide more guarantees for the plan's implementation.
In the end, there were 11 rebel MPs who joined the opposition and voted against the bill in the general vote – 18 fewer than needed to overturn the rule -, including two of the government's most senior immigration policy officials until recently: the former interior minister, Soila Braverman, and former Secretary of State for Immigration, Robert Jenrick, who resigned shortly after the executive introduced the bill to Parliament in protest at its cutting.
The amendments introduced by Jenrick and veteran MP Bill Cash – and backed by nearly 60 Conservative MPs – contemplated limiting the circumstances in which migrants could appeal to the courts and inserting new clauses to avoid potential rulings by the European Court of Human Rights they are seeking. to paralyze deportations again, as has already happened in June 2022. Representatives of the hardline wing have insisted that any precautionary measure issued by international courts is an interference in UK sovereignty and in Parliament’s ability to make laws, but despite their reservations about the bill’s ability to avoid battles In the judiciary, about twenty rebel legislators chose to abstain from the vote and facilitate its passage.
The abstainers have laid down the hatchet, knowing that opening a leadership crisis at this moment would end their few options with a return to opinion polls that still put them far behind Labour.
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