PRITI PATEL’S attack on asylum rights has suffered a second round of setbacks in the House of Lords, with campaigners saying that the defeats show her legislation to be “unworkable.” 

Peers rejected Tory plans to divide asylum-seekers into two classes based on their means of arrival in Britain, as well as a proposal to criminalise the act of arriving in the country without permission. 

They also voted down a measure in the widely condemned Nationality and Borders Bill that would open the door to offshore processing of asylum-seekers.