mr sunak argues that the rwanda plan will deter people from crossing the english channel in small boats from france. our political correspondent peter saull reports. the ayes to the right 320, the noes to the left, 276. a government victory, in the end by a relatively comfortable margin. but at times this was in doubt. 61 conservative mps tried but failed to change the legislation, including the former home secretary. this bill needs to work. it is our last chance. if we get it wrong, the british people will not forgive us and they would be right to do so. most of her colleagues fell back into line, but she was one of 11 conservatives to rebel in the main vote. and this is what the latest tory row is all about a plan to dissuade people from getting in boats by saying, if you come to the uk like this, we ll send you here to rwanda, where you ll have your asylum claim processed and you can stay. but the scheme has been beset by problems. borisjohnson was prime minister when
assessment on the bill passing in the house of commons later. it is one thing for the house of commons later. it is one thing for mps the house of commons later. it 3 one thing for mp5 to the house of commons later. it 3 one thing for mps to rebel and one thing for mp5 to rebel and amendments. they feel there is a theoretically better version of the bill. it is a different thing to the vote against the bill at third reading. no government has lost a bill at that stage since 1977. it would mean that the government has no political cover if that size to go to a general election. we have not seen much evidence that their mps rebelling are prepared to take that step. if they wanted that they should would have been clear from the beginning. most of them are leaving themselves room to back down. they may abstain, but i don t think they will vote against it. what are their concerns broadly about the bill? it s not that they disagree with the policy, is it? no but the main clutch
that he felt there was a moral obligation of the company to pay some contribution towards the compensation of some of these people who were wrongly convicted, although there were no details of exactly how much or how that would really work in practice. he also said that the post office had become aware early on, to use his phrase, about some of the errors and bugs in the software system. a few other developments i think worth mentioning from yesterday, we heard from one of the lawyers representing 77 of the wrongly convicted sub postmasters who said that of that 77, only three had so far received fair and final compensation. we also heard from the post office minister, kevin hollinrake, who said that he hoped that any compensation due to some of these wrongly convicted people would be paid by the end of august but that the bill for that compensation could reach more than £1 billion. today, here at the inquiry, we will hear more from employees for fujitsu, getting down to the
hello. i m sally bundock. a very a very warm welcome to a very warm welcome to the a very warm welcome to the programme. the us military has carried out a fourth round of airstrikes against the iranian backed houthis in yemen. the us says it struck 1a houthi missiles which may have been intended for attacks on shipping in the red sea. it came just hours after the houthis used a drone to hit another us owned cargo ship in the gulf of aden. on wednesday, the united states has announced that it s returning the houthis to a list of global terrorist organisations. the designation will require american financial institutions to freeze houthi funds and its members will be banned from the us. the houthis began attacking merchant vessels in november, saying they were responding to israel s military operation in gaza. since then, the group has launched dozens of attacks on commercial tankers passing through the red sea, one of the world s busiest shipping lanes. answering questions abo
i think most of the bill is sound. i think it can work. but we needed it beefing up. we needed it strengthening over the next few days. and i can t be in a position to vote for something which i don t believe in. the bill aims to send some people who arrive in the uk illegally to rwanda. their asylum case would be heard there and, if successful, that s where they d stay. the policy was first announced by borisjohnson nearly two years ago. two months later, the first deportation flight was cancelled minutes before take off, after the european court of human rights intervened. it then went through several legal challenges and, in november last year, the supreme court ruled the policy as it stood then to be unlawful. so now the government s put together a new bill that declares rwanda to be a safe country. refugee rights are human rights! but rebels aren t happy that it still allows individual legal challenges in the uk courts, and they want it strengthened to explicitly state t