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"This is just stage one of the legislation and I hope that at the next stage we can make amendments which will make it law which will be more likely to actually deter young smokers without removing freedom of choice for adults. Peers just voted in favour of an amendment to restore the jurisdiction of domestic courts in relation to the safety of Rwanda and enable them to intervene.Rishi Sunak and Benjamin Netanyahu will speak on the phone tonight, Sky News understands.
Instead, the repeated actions from several district mayors in Brussels to ensure the event didn't have a venue took centre stage. Peers voted on an amendment that says Rwanda"cannot be treated as a safe country" until the Independent Monitoring Committee - created by the treaty agreed with Rwanda - affirms that the mechanisms it creates have been fully implemented.Right now, Rishi Sunak is going to be thinking about his legacy.
While this is a very popular policy with the public – and it's being backed by Labour – a lot of Conservative MPs are distinctively uncomfortable with it.