Unelected House of Lords Imposes Defeat To British PM Sunak, Approves Motion Calling for Delay in His Plan To Deport Illegal Migrants to Rwanda
The never-ending ‘Rwanda Plan’ British soap opera had another dramatic chapter yesterday.
The unelected House of Lords, the upper chamber of Parliament, imposed a political defeat to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in his pledge to start flying the illegal migrants to Africa in a couple of months.
Reuters reported:
“British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a setback to his plans to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda after parliament’s upper house backed a largely symbolic motion to delay ratification of a treaty aimed at overcoming a legal block.
Under the Rwanda plan, which has yet to be carried out, asylum seekers who arrive on England’s southern coast in small,