No 10 hints PM open to reappointing Anderson as Tory deputy chair

Attacks from flailing ministers seeking more ‘enemies of the people’ are ramping up, but still we will do the right thing, says the secret civil servant

 

Rishi Sunak’s controversial rwanda asylum bill has suffered its first defeat in the House of Lords. The unelected chamber sought to delay a treaty with the east African nation that paves the way for the divisive deportation scheme with a defeat bac ...

PM loses crucial vote in upper chamber, as furious Nigel Farage calls for mass sacking of peers

Lords vote for motion to delay ratification of rwanda treaty until government can show country is safe

Watch live as peers in the House of Lords debate Rishi Sunak's flagship rwanda asylum policy on Monday, 22 January, after the prime minister won a key Commons vote last week.

Lords to debate whether it should delay ratification of UK-rwanda treaty

‘I’m not ruling it out,’ says ex-immigration minister who fought against Rishi Sunak’s ‘weak’ bill

Opposition politician Frank Ntwali says country is unsafe and Sunak’s pursuance of policy ‘quite bizarre’

Motion seeks to delay ratification of treaty until government can show that destination country is safe

The rwanda shambles, critical byelections and a likely mauling in local polls in May, the PM’s troubles are mounting. Tory optimists do see a way to win, but admit it is narrowing

The £240m white elephant is halted as peers approve a two-month timetable to scrutinise Rishi Sunak’s bill

Watch as they stab themselves in the back and shoot themselves in the foot over the rwanda policy, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

About 2,800 jobs will go over the next 18 months, with a further 300 to be lost after

Officials will be taught how to carry out deportations, including how to handle people who physically resist

Baroness Ruth Davidson, the former Conservative leader in Scotland, says it is right to have a ‘debate’ about immigration but cast doubt on the government’s policies

Home Office reportedly hired hangar and aircraft fuselage to rehearse forcing people onto flights as Ruth Davidson says they are ‘probably never going to happen’

Emily Thornberry was grilled during a heated debate on rwanda on Thursday night's BBC Question Time (18 January). The Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales was challenged to spell out Labour’s alternative when it came to stopping migrant bo ...

The Home Office believes five officers will be needed for each migrant being deported