/Pogled.info/ During a vote on Tuesday, December 12, 313 members of the British House of Commons approved the second reading of the so-called “security in Rwanda” bill (we are talking about the expulsion of illegal immigrants to a country ready to accept them as refugees). 269 voted against and more than 30 MPs from the ruling Tory party abstained.
The vote shows a split among conservatives who oppose Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s plan to deport illegal refugees from Africa and the Middle East.
The emergency bill, published last week, was the 43-year-old prime minister’s long-awaited response to the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in November that the deportation of Rwandan asylum seekers was illegal under international law. Why did this issue rise to the height of the English High Court?
The government’s actions to regulate the flow of immigrants into the country are under intense public scrutiny, many Britons would like to get rid of them.
It should not be forgotten that the issue of both legal and illegal immigration is likely to become a key issue in next year’s parliamentary elections.
Despite the “Pyrrhic victory”, Sunak cannot be considered the winner of the argument with his opponents. First, there is a third vote coming up. Second, rebellion within the ranks of his own party. For Sunak, the upcoming X-Day could decide his political fate.
His plan provoked factional infighting among the Tories at a level not seen since Brexit. Left-wing MPs are unhappy with Home Secretary James Cleverley’s explanation that Rwanda, where “excess” asylum seekers will be deported, is the place on Earth where human rights and international law are respected. The rightists, on the other hand, insist on a tougher language.
The government will therefore have to, figuratively speaking, squeeze between Scylla and Charybdis in the final vote. It is too early for Prime Minister Sunak to rest on his laurels as his political opponents have vowed to fight the government’s plan after the Christmas holidays.
As in France, the immigration debate has destabilized the British government. Rishi Sunak may, of course, have the support of a slim majority in Westminster, but his Conservative Party is already divided over the policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, when it is a cornerstone of Downing Street’s strategy to prevent illegal migrants crossing English Channel from entering the country using available funds at your own risk and responsibility.
The ‘security in Rwanda’ bill has declared the East African country ‘safe’ for asylum seekers rejected by Albion.
Downing Street came up with it as a matter of urgency in an attempt to circumvent a High Court ruling on November 15 that a plan to deport asylum seekers who arrived in the UK in small boats to Rwanda was illegal.
The judges unanimously decided that the agreement posed a significant risk that the applicants would be deported from Rwanda to their country of origin, as the country’s judicial system did not provide sufficient guarantees for their rights.
The Rwanda treaty, previously initiated by Boris Johnson’s government and signed in 2022 by London and Kigali, is still controversial. In particular, such an authority as the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby called it “inhuman”.
It was never implemented due to numerous legal issues. Sunak decided the treaty should act as a deterrent to potential refugees crossing the Channel illegally.
The unrest (vote of no confidence in the government!) at 10 Downing Street was so intense that the Prime Minister urgently recalled Energy Security Secretary Graham Stewart from Dubai, where he was representing the UK at the final COP28 negotiations, to ensure that neither a vote of support in the House of Commons will not be lost.
And while the immediate danger to Rishi Sunak has passed for now, Tory rebels have already warned they will demand significant changes before the third reading in January 2024.
There is another dimension to the bill: the exorbitant cost to the treasury of His Majesty King Charles III. London has pledged £400m to Kigali, although no asylum seekers have been sent there so far.
Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer, who is tipped to win and return to power at the next general election in 2024, has vowed to get rid of the “shameful deal” with Rwanda.
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2023-12-15 14:09:33
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