Watch live as Sunak’s Rwanda bill faces test in House of Lords

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Watch live as the Rwanda bill faces a test in the House of Lords on Monday 29 January.

Rishi Sunak is braced for additional battle over his bill to revive the government’s asylum scheme, as the laws faces scrutiny from a quantity of distinguished critics.

Some 71 members of the higher chamber are anticipated to talk on the second studying debate of the draft regulation.

Among them is the Archbishop of Canterbury, who has voiced profound issues concerning the plan to ship asylum seekers who cross the Channel in small boats on a one-way flight to Kigali.

Lord Carlile of Berriew, who earlier this month warned the federal government is shifting in direction of “totalitarianism” in its dealing with of the coverage, can also be as a result of seem.

The crossbench peer has prompt the Lords would search to undo what he described as politicians “meddling” in the impartial courts.

Mr Sunak’s Safety of Rwanda Bill survived its third studying in the House of Commons earlier this month after the prime minister noticed off a Tory rise up which had sought to toughen the laws.