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The Latest Breaking News from Lords

Sunak’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda receives first parliamentary defeat

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

The Guardian - UK

House of Lords votes to delay Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda treaty – as it happened

Peers vote 214-171 to delay bill to allow more time for scrutiny

The Guardian - UK

Rwanda plan could fail first test in Lords as peers move to thwart Sunak’s bill

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

The Guardian - UK

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Setback For Sunak As House Of Lords Sets Out Prolonged Timetable For Rwanda Bill

Sunak spent the morning urging his peers in the unelected chamber to pass his asylum bill as soon as possible, arguing it was the "will of the people" and they should see it as a "priority" for the country.

International Business Times UK

Home Office hires hangar and dummy plane to rehearse forcing migrants onto Rwanda flights

Staff will be trained on how to handle 'disruptive' people

Evening Standard

We ‘clearly let society down’ and have broken people’s trust in technology, Fujitsu boss tells Horizon Post Office inquiry – as it happened

Paul Patterson, CEO of Fujitsu Europe, also says editing of witness statements used to prosecute post office operators was ‘shameful’

The Guardian - UK

Setback for Sunak’s Rwanda bill pledge as peers reject his call for haste

Members of Lords criticise PM’s ‘bizarre’ and ‘vacuous’ calls for swift approval of legislation to ensure deportation flights by spring

The Guardian - UK

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UK PM Says Controversial Rwanda Plan Is 'Will Of The People'

Rishi Sunak on Thursday urged members of the UK's unelected upper chamber of parliament to pass his contentious plan to send migrants to Rwanda, insisting it was "the will of the people".

International Business Times

Sunak is praying for the Lords to block the Rwanda bill – so he can blame the left

If that plane full of asylum seekers actually takes off, it is no longer the great distraction his government needs it to be, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Sunak pressures Lords to pass Rwanda bill and denies Tory split on issue

PM urges opposition peers to back deportation bill amid reports of Tories submitting no-confidence letters in PM

The Guardian - UK

UK’s Rwanda bill is a ‘step towards totalitarianism’, says Lord Carlile

Leading barrister signals House of Lords plans to revise bill, saying government is ‘elevating itself above the law’

The Guardian - UK

The Rwanda bill passing could be just the start of Sunak’s troubles

Problems in the Lords, further legal challenges and the alienation of centrist MPs and voters may await the prime minister

The Guardian - UK

Champagne worth £90,000 bought in House of Lords last year, FoI data shows

Sales of 1,589 bottles prove Lords is ‘archaic and out of touch’ during cost of living crisis, says the SNP

The Guardian - UK

'Voters will be fizzing': Lords Champagne sales hit highest level for five years

CHAMPAGNE sales in bars in the House of Lords rose to the highest level for five years last year, with almost £90k worth of fizz sold in 2023.

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Row grows over Liz Truss ‘lettuce list’ honours for cronies

Former PM’s ‘shameless’ move compared to Harold Wilson’s ‘lavender list’ scandal – as Jacob Rees-Mogg makes desperate defence of ally

The Independent UK

Michelle Mone claims she has been treated like Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar over PPE scandal

Baroness Mone said it has been ‘an extremely tough year of pain with frozen accounts’ and asked ‘what happened to innocent until proven guilty?’

The National (Scotland)

Yes supporters should sit in House of Lords, former chief strategist says

YES supporters should take seats in the House of Lords in order to create “ambassadors for independence in the institutional heart of the UK”,…

The Independent UK

Independent readers call for Baroness Mone to be stripped of her title following PPE scandal

Have your say: Readers were almost unanimous in their calls to remove Baroness Mone from the House of Lords

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Evening Standard

Charlotte Owen parties with Boris Johnson's wife

The former PM made Owen the youngest lift peer in history

Evening Standard

Outgoing Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford slams House of Lords: 'I don't want to become a peer'

The Welsh Labour leader criticised the unelected Upper House of Parliament as a 'democratic anachronism'

Evening Standard

Michelle Mone: inside the extraordinary rise and catastrophic fall of the 'lying baroness'

The Tory peer known as 'Baroness Bra' is under growing pressure to resign from the House of Lords as her involvement in the PPE scandal unfolds. So could this week be her final undoing? Katie Strick reports

The Independent UK

Michael Gove reveals he has cooperated with criminal probe into Michelle Mone scandal

Gove says he wants to see ‘justice served’ – as Baroness Mone lashes out again at Tory ministers

Evening Standard

OPINION - Take away her title and ban her from the Lords, Michelle Mone is an embarrassment to us all

Baroness Mone. Pause, and let the words sink in. The blonde business titan who established the Ultimo bra brand — for which her own impressive embonpoint was the best advertisement — would not once have been an obvious candidate for the Lords. But it says a good deal about the…

The Independent UK

Nadine Dorries wades into Michelle Mone row: ‘Why was she made a peer in the first place?’

Ms Dorries, who quit as an MP in protest at her own failure to secure a peerage, said the biggest question about Baroness Mone was ‘why she was made a peer at all’

The Guardian - UK

Michelle Mone and ministers trade claims over her hidden links to PPE deals

Disgraced Tory peer says government always knew of involvement in Covid contracts as calls mount for her to stay away from Lords

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