After months of parliamentary ping-pong between the House of Commons and the Lords, Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill has handed. The prime minister known as it a "landmark" legislation, saying that "nothing will stand in our way" of getting flights off the bottom inside 10 to 12 weeks.
However, the scheme might face but extra hurdles, with the potential for it to be held up by challenges in courtroom.
On this episode, Matt Barbet takes inventory of the invoice with Adam Parsons, Sky’s Europe editor in France, who has been watching migrant boats cross the English Channel even after the invoice’s passing.
Sky’s communities correspondent Becky Johnson additionally joins Matt to share a few of the tales from these asylum seekers already within the UK and what they may count on from the Rwanda invoice.
And Dr Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory on the University of Oxford, particulars the potential impression this new laws may need on migration figures.
Producer: Rosie Gillott
Interviews producer: Melissa Tutesigensi-Charles
Promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
