UK’s Sunak wins parliament vote on deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s emergency bill to revive his plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has avoided defeat in parliament, surviving a rebellion by dozens of his own MPs that laid bare his party’s deep divisions.
Sunak, who has pinned his reputation on the strategy despite warnings at every stage that it would not work, won the first vote on the plan in the House of Commons 313 to 269 on Tuesday after last-ditch negotiations and drama in parliament.
Despite the victory, the result showed the prime minister is struggling to maintain control over his party.
Moderate Conservatives said they would not support the draft law if it meant Britain would breach its human rights obligations, and right-wing politicians said it does not go far enough.

Al Jazeera’s Willem Marx reports from London.

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