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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Adam Forrest and Kate Devlin

Sunak tries to stop Tory revolt with new Rwanda bill as Braverman warns of ‘electoral oblivion’

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Rishi Sunak made a desperate bid to head off a growing revolt among right-wing Conservatives over his failed Rwanda flights plan with new emergency legislation that defies human rights law.

Home secretary James Cleverly unveiled a bill in the Commons to “disapply” the UK Human Rights Act in a bid to stop British judges blocking the deportation of asylum seekers.

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