Politics latest: Rwanda bill back in the Commons again as parliamentary ping pong goes on - after Sunak says bill will pass tonight 'no ifs, no buts'
Lords defeated the government over the plan earlier, demanding MPs think again over a requirement the east African country could not be treated as safe until the secretary of state makes a statement to parliament to that effect after consulting an independent monitoring body. The Commons will vote on a requirement meaning the east African country could not be treated as safe until the secretary of state, having consulted an independent monitoring body, makes a statement to Parliament saying that.There was a brief power outage in the House of Lords as peers continued their sitting tonight.Lord Bellamy, who was speaking at the despatch box, said:"Ah, I must have said something very controversial.
However, there was no compromise on the other amendment - Lord Hope's plan for when and how to declare Rwanda a"safe country" - and his colleagues decided this was a fight worth having. Sky's Jon Craig reckons that it will be about midnight by the time it reaches the Lords for the second time tonight.Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to work to protect the Premier League's status as the world's leading football competition, echoing some of its concerns about the introduction of a football regulator.
"But we must also protect the Premier League. We've got the best football in the world in this country, and I want to make sure that's fully protected.
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