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Peers face call to calm down and allow Rwanda bill to clear | News [Video]

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Peers were urged to “calm down” and allow the government’s Rwanda deportation legislation to progress, as MPs voted to overturn amendments made by the House of Lords on Monday 15 April.

The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill will not receive royal assent until both the House of Commons and the Lords agree its final wording, a process known as parliamentary ping-pong.

MPs returned from the Easter recess on Monday to discuss six further changes made by peers, with the government tabling motions to disagree with them – while also moving its own proposal in a bid to ease concerns over how the bill operates in relation to modern slavery victims.

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Donald Trump claims immigration has left Sadiq Khan’s London ‘unrecognisable’ after Europe ‘opened its doors to jihad’ and vows ‘never to let that happen’ in the US in his latest swipe at capital [Video]
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Donald Trump claims immigration has left Sadiq Khan's London 'unrecognisable' after Europe 'opened its doors to jihad' and vows 'never to let that happen' in the US in his latest swipe at capital [Video]

'We've seen what happened when Europe opened its doors to jihad. Look at Paris, look at London, they're no longer recognisable,' Trump told supporters in a May Day rally in Wisconsin.

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