The Senior Pastor of the Anglican Church, Justin Welby, has agreed that he will leave for life when members of the first class of the British Parliament will vote again on the plan to send immigrants to Rwanda.
Welby opposes the agreement between the British Government and Rwanda since it was first signed in April 2022.
He points out that their country does not send immigrants to another country because it has the capacity to take care of them.
The members of the two groups are in the process of voting on the draft of 10 amendments to this agreement, which includes the request that the courts are the ones to confirm if Rwanda is safe for migrants and another that the migrants who have worked for the security agencies and their families should not be deported.
For the first time, members of the last round of the British Parliament supported these reforms with a majority of votes. He had to be sent back to the first round, which was rejected by a majority vote.
It is expected that in this transfer of the reform project to the members of the Inteko, which has been given the name of ‘Ping-Pong’, the members of the last phase will vote again after Easter, in order for the two phases to be in line with each other.
In an interview with LBC newspaper, Welby pointed out that it will end with members of both groups of the House not accepting these reforms due to the fact that the first group includes many members of the ruling Conservative Party.
Welby pointed out that the first class has the strongest say on the subject because of this large number of members. “Eventually, the finalists will say, ‘O.K., we’ve made our point, you guys don’t agree,’ and that’s it,” he said.
The Anglican pastor announced that this election of members of the Assembly would end in April 2024, he would no longer oppose this immigration agreement. However, even if it doesn’t happen, he still disagrees with it.
The British government has expressed its desire to implement this agreement as soon as possible, because it is confident that it will help it to solve the problem of illegal immigrants. Only, it requires first to wait for the final decision of the members of both the Houses.
