Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday that flights deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda would start in the next months, just hours before Parliament was set to vote on the controversial bill.
“We are ready, plans are in place and these flights will go, come what may,” Sunak told a news conference.
Lawmakers in the House of Commons, dominated by Sunak’s Conservatives, are expected to reject amendments suggested by the unelected House of Lords.