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The British government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda appears to have hit a snag in a vote in the House of Lords.
Rishi Sunak's cabinet has already failed three times as of Monday afternoon to pass the law. A few more votes are still expected in the evening, but there is little hope that the law will be approved.
The previous amendment to be adopted was to ensure that Rwanda is not declared a safe country until the terms of the accompanying treaty – signed in November – are fully implemented and provide for a monitoring mechanism to establish this.
This amendment establishes the mechanism to determine that the treaty has been fully implemented so that Rwanda can be declared safe and flights can start to this African country.
The result of the last vote was 277 votes against 167 in favor, which means that the government lost by a majority of 110 votes more than the two previous defeats this afternoon.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rt Rev Justin Welby, said the purpose of international law was to stop governments from doing things "that are wrong".
"The government is defying international law to limit our actions. And the purpose of international law is to stop governments from going ahead with things that are wrong ," he said.
Conservative peer Lord Tugendhat, whose nephew is security minister Tom Tugendhat, accused ministers of behaving like the ruling party in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 in its move to legislate that Rwanda was safe.
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