PEERS have moved against floundering PM Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda Bill after backing motions to block its implementation. 

The vote in the House of Lords on Monday night provoked anti-migrant hardliners to demand the abolition of the upper house, a policy normally championed by the left. 

Peers voted by 214 to 171 to urge that the Bill, which permits refugees to be deported to Rwanda, be delayed until the African country has improved its asylum procedures. 

They brushed aside pleas by Conservative comeback kid David Cameron to approve the legislation, which struggled through the Commons last week in the teeth of Tory splits and rebellions. 

“It’s not acceptable to have people travelling from a perfectly acceptable country, France, to another safe country, Britain, and to be able to stay, and that’s what the Rwanda plan is all about,” the Foreign Secretary clarified. 

Mr Sunak had urged the Lords not to block the “will of the people,” but the peers were unmoved by such blandishments.  

Liberal Democrat Lord Razzell argued the contradiction in the government’s approach, saying on the one hand that Rwanda was safe, yet on the other that deportation there would have a deterrent effect on those seeking to cross the Channel. 

The vote is only advisory and the motion to block the Bill was moved by Lord Goldsmith, author of the legal advice approving the Iraq war in 2003. It will likely not long derail Sunak’s plan. 

Reform party founder Nigel Farage was among those turning their anger on the rebellious peers.

“We must sack all current members of the House of Lords. It is beyond parody,” he said.