Sunak saves vote on his Rwanda migration plan

London (EFE).- The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, saved one of the most complex situations of his mandate this Wednesday, by obtaining the support of the Conservative majority to implement his controversial law to deport immigrants to Rwanda.

Despite the fact that more than 60 ‘Tory’ delegates voted for the amendments against government guidelines, the text ultimately passed without difficulty at third reading, with the support of 320 delegates, compared to 276 abstentions.

Despite that comfortable advantage of 44 votes, at least eleven conservatives spoke out against the legislation entirely, including radicals like former Interior Minister Suella Braverman or former Secretary of State for Immigration, Robert Jenrick.

The resignation yesterday, on Tuesday, of two Conservative Party vice-chairs over joining amendments seeking to tighten the project had raised doubts about the future of the vote, which is seen as crucial for Sunak.

Despite everything, there was less suspense in the end than expected, as the ‘rebels’ had already said about 45 minutes before the final vote that they planned to support the law, which in their opinion does not go as far as It comes. To reaffirm the sovereignty of the British courts.

These ‘rebels’ once again supported an amendment allowing them to ignore European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rulings on the scheme jeopardizing it, but they followed parliamentary discipline when ruling on the whole law, they know. Otherwise they would get spoiled. The decline of the executive.

Sunak follows in Boris Johnson’s footsteps

Sunak has made the project, first proposed by his predecessor Boris Johnson in 2022, a central aspect of his mandate, as he understands it will allow him to deliver on one of his five promises: undocumented Ending the arrival of boatloads of immigrants. English Channel.

Thanks to the new law, immigrants who entered British soil illegally will be deported to Rwanda, receiving large amounts of money in return.

In 2022, the ECtHR ordered the halt of several flights to Rwanda with migrants at the last minute, despite the fact that British courts had given the green light.

The government has a new side to the conflict with civil servants and civil servants’ unions, who know that they cannot be forced to willfully ignore an ECtHR directive, which would be a breach of international law.