Relief for Rishi Sunak as Rwanda bill passes first vote in Commons
by Pippa Crerar, Ben Quinn and Peter Walker from World news | The Guardian on (#6H3BS)
Bill passes with a majority of 44 but prime minister faces further peril in the new year
Rishi Sunak narrowly avoided a major rebellion by rightwing Conservative MPs after they abstained on his controversial Rwanda bill but the prime minister faces further peril in the new year.
In a blow to Sunak's authority, more than two-dozen Tory rightwingers abstained in the vote on deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda, including the former home secretary Suella Braverman.
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