Abbie Llewelyn

· 5-min read Home Secretary accused Labour of a “politically cynical” effort to scupper the Rwanda scheme as peers dealt another blow to the asylum plan.

Placing vulnerable youngsters in illegal children's homes is “unacceptable”, an education minister has told Parliament.

MPs voted 312 to 237, majority 75, against the remaining amendment to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill.

Labour's Yvette Cooper slammed it as an 'eye-wateringly expensive election stunt'

The Prime Minister said the legislation is a 'fundamental change in the global equation on migration'

A move to suspend parental responsibility from parents who have been convicted of child sexual abuse against a member of their own family also failed

The Government has batted back a bid to ensure rape victims can access free legal advice and representation. In seeing off the measures, the Conservatives warned against creating “a hierarchy of support”.

Labour peer Lord Robertson of Port Ellen told the House of Lords that experts are questioning the Government's £75 billion figure.

A cross-party group of peers condemned the system whereby people who own freehold properties are locked into contracts to maintain communal areas.

Steps to ensure harassment victims can have malicious complaints made against them scratched from the record have been promised by the Government in the face of a Tory-led rebellion.