Rishi Sunak has suffered a series of defeats on his asylum plans in the Lords by unelected peers.
The Prime Minister has previously warned the Lords against frustrating “the will of the people” by hampering the passage of his Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, which has already been approved by MPs.
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Mr Sunak has made “stopping the boats” a key pledge of his leadership ahead of a general election later this year.
The defeat of amendments is likely to set into motion a “ping pong” between the Lords and the Commons when the Bill eventually returns for votes by MPs.
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This back and forth can only happen three times before the Government has a chance to invoke the Parliament Act and override the Upper House.
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This is expected to take place for the week commencing March 18.
With Labour set to put up little resistance, the bill should be passed into law by March 20 meaning flights could take off soon after then.
The size of the Lords defeats, with margins of 102 votes, are the biggest to have been suffered by Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister’s spokesman insisted the Rwanda Bill is “the right bill”.
He said: “The PM is clear that the Rwanda Bill as drafted is the right bill. That is the bill that will allow us to get flights off to Rwanda.
“It’s the toughest piece of illegal migration legislation ever introduced. And it closes down all but the narrowest possible grounds for appeals, giving us confidence that we can deliver flights off the ground.
“And we look forward to the Lords looking at the bill carefully, and working with the Government to ensure that we can protect innocent lives from perilous journeys across the channel.”
The controversial draft legislation and a treaty with Rwanda are intended to prevent further legal challenges to the stalled deportation scheme after the Supreme Court ruled the plan was unlawful.
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He added: “We are not in any situation remotely like that, let’s be clear. The Government is not doing something on the scale of what we saw at that stage.
“But the Government is challenging the right of international law to constrain our actions. And the point of international law is to stop governments going ahead with things that are wrong.”
Labour former shadow attorney general Baroness Chakrabarti said the call for the Bill to comply with the rule of law must be “completely incontrovertible for those like the Prime Minister, who now claim to be liberal patriots”.
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