The Government’s Rwanda deportation plan passed through Parliament following an extended tussle between MPs and Lords.

The unelected chamber ended the deadlock after MPs rejected a requirement that Rwanda 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.

The Government said the Lords amendment was "almost identical" to the previous ones overturned by MPs.

Rishi Sunak said the bill was 'a fundamental change in the global equation on migration.'