UK Parliament In Stand-Off Over Rwanda Migrants Plan

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Britain’s Conservative government insisted Thursday that it still aimed to send migrants to Rwanda in the coming months, despite a parliamentary stand-off over the controversial plan.

The bill is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s answer to stopping asylum seekers, who risk their lives to cross the Channel from France to England in small boats.

He hopes putting irregular migrants on a one-way flight to Kigali will help defeat a resurgent opposition Labour party at a general election due later this year.

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