Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
The first, calling for an independent monitoring committee to rule on whether Rwanda is a safe country, was passed by 245 votes to 208.
The latest government defeats mean the Safety of Rwanda Bill will now return to the House of Commons for a fifth time as the parliamentary “ping pong” over it continues.Downing Street had hoped to finally get the bill onto the statute book this week - but peers have refused to back down”. Sunak has insisted that the bill is necessary to finally deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, two years after the controversial policy was first announced.
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