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...are rapidly working behind the scenes to make the Rwanda scheme workable before legislation returns to parliament next week for its final rounds of “ping pong” between the House of Commons and House of Lords...
...The House of Lords on Wednesday insisted on further changes to the government’s flagship Rwanda asylum bill, dashing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s hopes of the measure becoming law this week....
...Some 274 members of the UK’s upper house voted for the amendment, tabled by the Labour Lord Vernon Coaker, with 102 voting against it....
...Home Office minister Lord Sharpe insisted during the debate that there was nothing in the bill that conflicted with the UK’s legal obligations....
...UK MPs have voted to overturn four amendments to the Safety of Rwanda bill after the government declined to make concessions to peers in the House of Lords who have opposed plans to remove asylum seekers...
...The 110-vote majority in favour of the amendment marked Sunak’s biggest defeat in the Lords since he became prime minister....
...Hakluyt, the corporate consultancy founded by ex-MI6 intelligence officers, is appointing former UK Conservative party leader Lord William Hague as chair of its international advisory board....
...Sunak’s allies feared that if Lord Ben Houchen had failed to hold on to the Tees Valley mayoralty on Friday, it would have sparked panic in the party....
...Lord Ben Houchen held on in Tees Valley with a reduced majority, but only after fighting a campaign in which he distanced himself from the Conservative party and Sunak, even failing to wear a blue rosette...
...The House of Lords abandoned efforts late on Monday night to amend the government’s bill, after failing in the last of many attempts to introduce safeguards into the legislation....
...Robert Skidelsky House of Lords, London SW1, UK...
...Two founders of the Teesworks regeneration project chaired by Lord Ben Houchen have accused the Conservative mayor overseeing the scheme of “total incompetence” they claimed would cost taxpayers hundreds...
...The bill will return to the Lords on Tuesday, where peers are again due to reject the government’s changes....
..., House of Lords, London SW1, UK...
...Conservative Lord Ben Houchen has held on to the Tees Valley mayoralty, providing a glimmer of hope for the prime minister in an otherwise grim set of local election results....
...Lord David Cameron, Britain’s foreign secretary, said: “While we must let the judicial process run its course, I am deeply concerned by allegations of British nationals carrying out criminal activity on...
...It added that it had invited Jewish community leaders, police and crime officials from the London mayor’s office, and members of the House of Lords to a meeting where it would take participants through a...
...Overseen by Conservative mayor Lord Ben Houchen, it has become highly controversial due to concerns about transparency, governance and the role of private developers....
...Rwanda asylum bill is “fundamentally incompatible” with the UK’s human rights obligations, a cross-party parliamentary committee has warned, as the legislation is set to undergo scrutiny in the House of Lords...
...The allegations were first made in a biography by former Conservative deputy chair Lord Michael Ashcroft — which was serialised in the Mail on Sunday newspaper....
...The taxpayer-funded Teesside regeneration body chaired by Lord Ben Houchen faces a potential legal bill of more than £4mn after losing an action in London’s High Court against Britain’s fifth biggest port...
...The NAO findings came as UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda bill returned for the second time on Wednesday to the House of Lords....
...Lord David Anderson KC, former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation in the UK, told the BBC that the definition was “extremely broad” and risked catching both sides of the trans rights debate....
...Lord David Cameron, the UK’s foreign minister, last week urged the Hong Kong government to reconsider the draft....
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