Sunak avoids defeat as UK lawmakers vote in favour of Rwanda migration bill
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak avoided defeat in parliament on Tuesday on an emergency bill to revive his plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, seeing off a revolt by dozens of his lawmakers that laid bare his party's deep divisions. But he faces making potentially more concessions in the new year to uncompromising right-wingers, who say the bill is not tough enough. “It looks like a delayed battle,” says FRANCE 24 correspondent Bénédicte Paviot.