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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Sunak considering exemptions to Rwanda bill for some Afghans

A patrol of Afghan and British troops in Helmand in 2010. The UK is considering a Lords’ amendment to the Rwanda bill allowing some exemptions.
A patrol of Afghan and British troops in Helmand in 2010. The UK is considering a Lords’ amendment to the Rwanda bill allowing some exemptions. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

Rishi Sunak’s government is considering concessions on the Rwanda deportation bill to allow exemptions for Afghans who served alongside UK forces, parliamentary sources say.

Ministers are also being pressed to give ground to an amendment to the legislation so that the east African country could be ruled unsafe by a monitoring committee.

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