The Prime Minister has vowed to keep the Commons sitting late into the night if necessary to pass his flagship Rwanda Bill.
MPs and peers are set for a final showdown over the Government’s Rwanda Bill after weeks of parliamentary back-and-forth.
Peers have repeatedly blocked the legislation with a series of amendments, stretching debate on the “emergency legislation” over more than four months and delaying flights taking asylum seekers to Rwanda. The Bill is intended to overcome the objections of the Supreme Court by forcing judges to treat Rwanda as a safe country for asylum seekers and allowing ministers to ignore emergency injunctions from the European Court of Human Rights.
On Monday, MPs are expected to vote to overturn those changes before sending the Bill back to the House of Lords, where some peers may attempt to insist on their amendments again.
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