2023-12-12 09:07:10
A few hours before a crucial vote on his migration policy, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is trying to change the minds of potential rebels in his Conservative Party. The head of government received around 20 members of the right wing for breakfast in Downing Street on Tuesday. The evening before, around 40 MPs had ultimately demanded that Sunak significantly tighten the new deportation law – which the more moderate ones rejected.
Home Secretary James Cleverly and Foreign Secretary David Cameron campaigned strongly for the law in conservative newspapers. If 29 members of the Tory group vote once morest the draft in Parliament this evening or if 57 abstain, the project is likely to fail. As a result, Sunak might be sacked by his party or call a general election sooner than expected.
The Prime Minister wants to use the law to stop irregular migration in small boats across the English Channel. Arrivals should be flown to Rwanda immediately and without regard to their origin. They should apply for asylum there; a return to Great Britain is out of the question. After the High Court in London declared the plan illegal, the government introduced the new law. It is intended to prevent asylum seekers from appealing once morest deportation in British courts by expressly excluding reference to British human rights. Judicial experts criticize that the project undermines the separation of powers.
The draft does not go far enough for the Tory right wing. He is calling for the withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights so that asylum seekers can no longer sue in international courts. The opposition Labor party criticizes the Rwanda plans as symbolic politics that ignores the causes.
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