THE government’s Rwanda Bill was branded “performative cruelty” as it returned to the Commons last night with embattled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak facing questions over the strength of his Tory leadership.

Anti-racist campaigners hit out at the government’s “shameful” bid to bypass a Supreme Court ruling that the country is not a safe place to deport asylum-seekers as MPs prepared to vote on 10 amendments proposed by the House of Lords earlier this month.

With the government expected to oppose all amendments, Mr Sunak faces a potentially bruising row as the Bill is batted back and forth ping-pong style between the Commons and Lords.