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

Sunak’s Rwanda plan faces more hurdles as Tory peers condemn policy

House of Lords
Conservative peers, historians and bishops could demand changes that would further delay the Rwanda bill. Photograph: UK Parliament/The Guardian

Rishi Sunak’s troubled Rwanda deportation plan has been condemned by Conservative peers, historians and bishops in an indication that the House of Lords could demand changes that might delay its implementation.

Ken Clarke, the Conservative former chancellor and former lord chancellor, joined the archbishop of Canterbury and the historian Peter Hennessy on Monday evening in opposing the government’s plan to overturn a ruling by the UK’s highest court and send asylum seekers to the central African country.

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