Stephen Kinnock, Labour’s shadow immigration minister, is now wrapping up today’s debate for the opposition.
Mr Kinnock calls the bill the “please, please, please make Rwanda safe bill”.
He says the legislation does “nothing at all to make Rwanda safe, it just asserts that Rwanda is safe” and that the UK courts are not allowed to say otherwise.
Mr Kinnock criticises Rishi Sunak for proceeding with the bill in light of the Supreme Court’s judgment last month which ruled the scheme unlawful.
He says the Supreme Court’s ruling could have allowed Mr Sunak to stop “flogging the dead horse” that the scheme has become, “but he has chosen not to do it”.
He repeats Labour’s assertion the the plan is “destined to fail” legally and in operational terms – calling it “operation dog’s breakfast”.
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