This country has a pecking order of ethnicity

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I watched with dismay – but no surprise – as all 10 of the Lords’ amendments were voted down by the Conservative Party (PA Archive)

I’m appalled at the government throwing out the Lords amendments to its Rwanda bill, which would have protected Afghans – who risked everything to fight alongside the UK against extremists – from being deported to Kigali. This suggests both a disregard for those who have helped this country, and a pecking order based on ethnicity.

I suspect that if those in a similar position to the Afghans happened to be European, the result of the Commons vote would have been altogether different.

David Felton