Its a policy hes made central to his premiership, and now rishi sunak says the latest version of his Rwanda Policy Will Pass Parliament tonight in his words, no ifs, no buts, these flights are going to rwanda. He promised they would leave by the summer. The safety of rwanda bill, which is designed to deter people crossing the channel in small boats, is currently going back and forth between the commons and the lords, in a parliamentary procedure known as ping pong. Theres been months of deadlock and, tonight, the lords sent the bill back to mps once again. Where it is now being debated. Official figures show the backlog of people waiting to be removed from the uk rose from more than 1,700 injuly tojust under 52,000 a week ago. Lets go to westminster and get the latest from our political editor, chris mason. Chris. Hello, it is one of those nights here where i feel a little like an umpire. 0ne nights here where i feel a little like an umpire. One minute, i am looking down there at the H
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There has been a call for a division, so the lord s are going to vote on an amendment whether there should be further monitoring of rwanda and whether it is a safe country which to send asylum seekers. There are two amendments that restrict out of the bill from the commons. Theyre waiting for the bill to come back. You can see the binges are largely empty there. When this is completed, it will return to the commons and they will debate The Lords amendment. Lets go to peter saul. It seems there has been some concessions in the commons. Lord coca said it was important and he thanks the government for going the