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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government wins the backing of the elected House of Commons for his controversial plan to send migrants to Rwanda. The government fended off right-wing Conservative rebels to win the final vote on the legislation in the parliament's lower chamber by 320 votes to 276. SOUNDBITE
Britain is to send migrants and asylum-seekers who cross the Channel thousands of miles away to Rwanda, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces, as the government tries to clamp down on record numbers of people making the perilous journey. SOUNDBITE
New UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he is "not prepared to continue" with the Rwanda deportation plan of his Conservative predecessors. Speaking the day after his Labour Party secured a landslide election victory, Starmer says the plan "was never a deterrent, almost the opposite." SOUNDBITE
Britain's new Prime Minister Keir Starmer returns from Buckingham Palace, saying he has has officially been asked to form the new government "of this great nation", following his party's landslide victory in the general election. SOUNDBITE
Images of 10 Downing Street at first light as the UK wakes up having voted to elect Keir Starmer's Labour Party into power. Labour has won a landslide victory and will form the next government, ending 14 years of Conservative rule. IMAGES
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