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UK lawmakers vote in favour of the government's latest plans for sending migrants to Rwanda, which has split Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's ruling Conservative party. A knife-edge parliamentary vote in the House of Commons sees 313 MPs vote for the so-called Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, with 269 against. IMAGES
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits the constituency of Uxbridge & South Ruislip with its newly elected MP Steve Tuckwell after the Conservative Party narrowly held on to the seat of former Prime Minsiter Boris Johnson by 495 votes. That result, driven by opposition to Labour mayor Sadiq Khan's expansion of a vehicle pollution tax to outer London, offered the embattled Sunak some relief, as elsewhere the Conservatives saw hefty majorities in two other seats blown away as scandals and high inflation took their toll. IMAGES
UK politicians come and go at 10 Downing Street as new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak forms his new government. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is one of the notable arrivals, retained from Sunak's predecessor Liz Truss disastrous government. Sunak's second cabinet appointment was his close ally Dominic Raab as deputy prime minister and justice secretary. IMAGES
Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative Party's backbench 1922 Committee, announces that Rishi Sunak and Liza Truss have made it to the final ballot of Conservative members to decide who will replace Boris Johnson as the next party leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with Penny Mordaunt knocked out. Sunak led the last of five ballots of Tory lawmakers, winning 137 votes, ahead of Truss on 113, while junior trade minister Penny Mordaunt was eliminated after getting 105 votes. IMAGES
The UK Conservative Party's "1922 Committee" announces the results from the latest round of voting in the party leadership contest. Rishi Sunak, former Finance Minister, is still in the lead with 118 votes. The fight for second place is tightening between former defence minister Penny Mordaunt (second place with 92 votes) and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss (third place with 86 votes). Longshot candidate Kemi Badenoch trailed on 59 votes and was therefore eliminated from the contest. SOUNDBITE
Tom Tugendhat drops out of the race to become Britain's next prime minister as former finance minister Rishi Sunak widens his lead in the latest round of voting by Conservative MPs. SOUNDBITE
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