HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel’s proposals to offshore asylum-seekers have been rejected by peers in the latest blow to her anti-refugee Bill. 

The House of Lords voted by 208 to 155 — a majority of 53 — to scrap a provision in the Nationality and Borders Bill which would open the door to Australia-style offshore processing centres for refugees. 

The policy was condemned by Lords across all parties, with Tory peer Baroness Stroud branding it “unworkable on numerous levels,” saying it would expose “vulnerable people to further trauma rather than offering protection.”