Alex Chalk suggests Government is not prepared to toughen up Rwanda Bill
by Sophie Wingate
Dec 13, 2023
4 minutes
The Justice Secretary suggested the Government will not cede to right-wing Tory MPs by toughening up the Rwanda Bill – despite their threats to vote it down.
Alex Chalk stressed ministers’ commitment to “staying within the four corners of our international legal obligations”, including by allowing individual appeals by asylum seekers – a clause disliked by hardliners.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak won a crunch vote in the Commons on his emergency legislation aimed at reviving the plan to deport some asylum seekers to the African nation.
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