he government has suffered what is thought to be a record 20 defeats in the House of Lords over its controversial Illegal Migration Bill.
Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, spearheaded one change to the bill with a cross-party demand for the government to draw up a 10-year strategy to work with other countries to tackle the refugee crisis – something a fellow peer dismissed as a “non-policy”.
Other changes the Lords imposed include reinstating the right of appeal against age assessments for migrants claiming to be children, putting a legal duty on ministers to create safe and legal routes to the UK for refugees and bolstering enforcement against people smugglers.
The defeats – which surpass those inflicted on the government in the Brexit years – follow a bruising night for the government on Monday, when a coalition of opposition peers, crossbenchers, bishops and Conservative rebels inflicted 11 defeats on the government over the bill.
On the same day, Rishi Sunak was also confronted by the launch of a report from the New Conservatives, who issued a series of proposals to slash migration by a 400,000 a year
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