The federal government’s controversial Rwanda invoice has lastly grow to be regulation after it obtained royal assent at the moment.
The scheme, which seeks to deport asylum seekers arriving within the UK by way of small boats to Rwanda, was handed by parliament this week following a sequence of setbacks and delays.
Rishi Sunak has promised that the primary flights will take off in “10 to 12 weeks” – “come what could”.
The Lord Speaker has informed the Home of Lords that the invoice had obtained royal assent – the method by which the King agrees to make the invoice into an Act of Parliament and subsequently regulation.
