Purpose of the bill is now ‘dead’, says crossbench peer Alex Carlile after yesterday’s vote in House of Lords
Good morning. Yesterday the illegal migration bill was hacked to pieces in the House of Lords. Peers inflicted 11 defeats on the government. This was not quite a record – in January last year there were 14 defeats one night on the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill – but, if the amendments were allowed to stand, they would in effect emasculate the bill, and prevent it from achieving much of what the government intends it to achieve.
Here is Rajeev Syal’s story about the voting last night.
