Defiant peers have again dug in their heels over Rishi Sunak's Rwanda deportation plan and demanded MPs think again for a fifth time.The House of Lords backed by 240 votes to 211, majority 29, a requirement that the east African country could not be treated as safe until the secretary of state, having consulted an independent monitoring body, made a statement to Parliament to that effect.

Defiant peers have again dug in their heels over Rishi Sunak's Rwanda deportation plan and demanded MPs think again for a fifth time.The House of Lords backed by 240 votes to 211, majority 29, a requirement that the east African country could not be treated as safe until the secretary of state, having consulted an independent monitoring body, made a statement to Parliament to that effect.