The UK government has successfully fought off the latest challenge from the House of Lords regarding the proposed Illegal Migration Bill. In a vote in the House of Commons, MPs rejected all nine amendments put forward by the peers to change the legislation. Despite this victory, several prominent Conservative rebels, including former party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and ex-justice secretary Sir Robert Buckland, supported the amendments proposed in the Lords.
Following the vote, Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick called on the House of Lords to withdraw their amendments to the bill. However, it is understood that the peers will continue to pursue at least four of their proposals as the legislation returns to them for further debate tonight, with the discussion expected to extend past midnight.
