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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 ....