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Rwanda invoice handed by 313 votes to 269, a majority of 44

The federal government has received by 313 votes to 269 – a majority of 44.

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Regardless of voting to assist the Invoice, former Tory chief Iain Duncan Smith stated he may all the time rescind his backing at a later date.

He stated: “We all the time reserve the suitable to do what we now have to do once we assume it doesn’t work, my private view is I need to see the federal government hear and interact.

“Proper now this was a really tough Invoice to get via, very contentious, it was the hardest little bit of laws regarding folks’s rights, when it comes to asylum seekers, that we’ve seen, and that’s as a result of the disaster is large and many individuals are dying within the channel.

“It’s taking place throughout Europe – France is in defiance of the European court docket, sending folks again.

“Denmark handed laws to ship folks again, Sweden is doing the identical, Germany is in turmoil, Italy is speaking about defying the court docket – this isn’t simply the UK.

“It’s a part of the issue that throughout Europe we’re going through, so that is the difficulty right here on our island and we now have to resolve it, in any other case it creates chaos.”

Andrew Sparrow

Ben Riley-Smith from the Telegraph says by his rely 29 Tory MPs abstained as an act of rise up.

**29 Tory MPs rebelled**

– 37 Tory MPs abstained(Stats up to date, wrongly stated 38)

– 8 of the 37 have been paired(Per each Tories + Labour)

So 29 rebels, listed under

Possibly sufficient simply to pressure defeat subsequent time

By likelihood, 29 is the determine quoted because the variety of Tory MPs who would want to vote in opposition to a invoice for it to be defeated.

That’s all from me for immediately. Nadeem Badshah is taking on now.

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Sir Robert Syms is listed on the division record as not voting for the Rwanda invoice. However he says he did vote for it.

It isn’t uncommon for the early division lists to incorporate errors. Presumably it can get amended when it has been checked.

Yvette Cooper, the shadow house secretary, stated tonight’s vote confirmed how weak Rishi Sunak has turn into. In an announcement she stated:

The Conservatives’ civil conflict is continuous, and the nation is paying the worth for this chaos. At this time’s debate exhibits how weak Rishi Sunak is with this Tory psychodrama now dragging on into the New 12 months.

The prices of the failing Rwanda scheme are apparently rising to £400 million of taxpayers’ cash, whereas nobody has but been despatched and this scheme is just more likely to cowl lower than 1% of these arriving within the UK.

They’ve damaged the Tory occasion, damaged the asylum system and damaged each promise they’ve made to the British folks. Britain deserves higher than this.

They need to as an alternative be cracking down on the felony smuggler gangs, establishing a brand new returns unit to reverse the 50% collapse in returns, and clearing the asylum backlog to finish lodge use as Labour would do.

That is what Mark Francois, chair of the European Analysis Group, stated in his briefing for journalists simply earlier than the voting began claiming Rishi Sunak has agreed to tighten the invoice. He stated:

We have now determined collectively that we can’t assist the invoice tonight due to its many omissions, subsequently whereas it’s down to each particular person colleague finally to resolve what to do, collectively we won’t be supporting it.

The prime minister has been telling colleagues immediately he’s ready to entertain tightening the invoice, with that goal, on the committee stage, we’ll goal to desk an modification which might we hope, if accepted, would materially enhance the invoice and take away a few of its weaknesses.

For need of a greater phrase, you would possibly need to name it the [Sir Bill] Money modification, as a result of he’ll undoubtedly be serving to to draft it.

We very a lot hope these amendments shall be accepted – if they don’t seem to be and the invoice stays unamended, in that approach once more, collectively, we reserve the suitable to vote in opposition to it at third studying, that’s collectively what we now have determined.

How not less than 25 Conservative MPs abstained on Rwanda invoice as act of rise up

Not less than 25 Tory MPs positively abstained on the Rwanda invoice as an act of rise up.

Right here is the record of 24 Tory MPs who didn’t vote on the second studying, however who did vote in opposition to the Labour modification. Which means it’s honest to say the all intentionally abtained.

Sir Jake Berry

Suella Braverman

Sir Invoice Money

Miriam Cates

Sir Simon Clarke

Sarah Dines

Richard Drax

Sir James Duddridge

Natalie Elphicke

Mark Francois

Chris Inexperienced

Jonathan Gullis

Sir John Hayes

Adam Holloway

Tom Hunt

Caroline Johnson

David Jones

Danny Kruger

Marco Longhi

Craig Mackinlay

Robin Millar

Jill Mortimer

John Redwood

Sir Robert Syms – See observe under – Syms says he was included on this record as a mistake

And right here is the 14 record of Tory MPs who didn’t vote in both division. It’s understood that eight of them have been paired. Of the opposite six, some, reminiscent of Robert Jenrick, have been definitey abstaining to make a degree, however others might have had another excuse for not voting. UPDATE: I’ve marked in daring the names of the MPs who reportedly have been intentionally abstaining. See 8.39pm.

Rehman Chishti

Theo Clarke

Tobias Ellwood

Jo Gideon

Dame Andrea Jenkyns

Robert Jenrick

Julia Marson

Stephen McPartland

Caroline Nokes

Jesse Norman

Dan Poulter

Andrew Rosindell

Alok Sharma

Chris Skidmore

UDPATE: Sir Robert Syms says he did vote for the invoice, and that his identify is included within the record of MPs who didn’t vote by mistake. (See 8.30pm.)

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Rishi Sunak has posted this on X.

The British folks ought to resolve who will get to return to this nation – not felony gangs or overseas courts.

That’s what this Invoice delivers.

We’ll now work to make it legislation in order that we will get flights going to Rwanda and cease the boats.

The division record for the second studying division is now on the Commons web site.

It exhibits that 38 Conservative MPs didn’t vote. There have been 16 Tories who didn’t vote within the first division and most of these have been in all probability MPs who had a professional purpose to not be within the chamber (reminiscent of Alok Sharma, the previous Cop president, who’s at Cop), reasonably than MPs who have been actively abstaining (reminiscent of Robert Jenrick).

That means the variety of intentional abstentions was in all probability within the 20s.

No Conservative MP voted in opposition to the invoice, the division record confirmed.

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With reference to the subsequent votes, MPs at the moment are voting on the programme movement, which says that the invoice shall be referred to a committee of the entire home (as an alternative of simply going to a small committee for the committee stage) and that two days shall be put aside for the remaining levels of the invoice to be debated (six hours every day).

It doesn’t say when these debates will happen, however they’re anticipated in early January.

The federal government received the primary division with 337 votes. On the second division it had 313 votes, implying that solely 24 Conservatives actively abstained.

That means the voting clout of the so-called 5 households could also be lower than Mark Francois imagines. (See 6.57pm.)

The working assumption has been that the Tory rebels would want not less than 29 MPs to vote in opposition to the invoice to result in its defeat. Now there have to be some doubt as to whether or not they have the numbers – though views might have modified by the point the subsequent votes happen after Christmas.

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Rwanda invoice handed by 313 votes to 269, a majority of 44

The federal government has received by 313 votes to 269 – a majority of 44.

Up to date at 14.46 EST

The division record additionally exhibits 5 impartial MPs and one Reclaim MP all voting with the federal government on the Labour modification. They’re all both ex-Conservative MPs or Tories suspended from the occasion.

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The division record for the primary vote is now out there on the Commons web site.

Right here is the web page exhibiting MPs who didn’t vote, together with 16 Tory MPs and eight Labour MPs. Presumably the eight Labour MPs are people who find themselves authorised to be away.

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From Sky’s Beth Rigby

On what number of abstentions, supply from the suitable concerned within the assembly: ‘there have been greater than 40 MPs in room and collective view was abstain. Not all within the room and never everybody will agree’…..

Here’s a screenshot exhibiting a few of the Tory MPs who’ve been visibly abstaining within the division.