Set out his timetable this morning, admitting it will take longer than he would like. The rwanda bill, which is likely to become law tonight, is designed to curb any legal challenge to the process. But the peers are not giving up without a fight. These are the live pictures of the lords, where they are settling in for another round of this Parliamentary Ping Pong. There were two amendments the commons stripped out this the commons stripped out this afternoon one to protect afghan veterans who served with british forces. The government insists there is a legal roots already exist. The Second Amendment would stop migrants from being deported until practical protections are in place to guarantee rwanda as a safe country. Here is the Prime Minister. It is clear that there is a loud minority of people who will do absolutely anything and everything to disrupt this policy from succeeding. You only have to look at what has been going on in parliament over the past few weeks and months, with th
Burnt and we may well be in that territory in the next couple of hours. It is interesting that you should seize upon that particular line of argument from the prime minister, it is something that has been whispered privately by people in government to me for the last few weeks. What is going on here . They want to create a set of images that continue to appear on Tv Screens and Social Media feeds and all the rest of it, all the way through the summer, in the countdown to a general election expected probably in the autumn, that gives a rolling impression that this policy is up and running. And they then hope that that translates into the key thing that translates into the key thing that all of this is about, when we put all of the noise, and my goodness theres been a lot of noise about this policy in the uk for the last couple of years, does actually act as a deterrent . This isnt about act as a deterrent . This isnt about a piece of legislation in the House Of Commons or the house of l