LABOUR peers have condemned Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s latest bid to revive his Rwanda scheme as the Bill entered the House of Lords for its second reading today.

Lord Frederick Ponsonby of Shulbrede said that it was the third time in as many years the government had presented legislation aimed at stemming small boats Channel crossings.

Announcing that his party would not support it, he said: “The third year being presented with increasingly rushed, unworkable and inhumane solutions to the problem of small boats and asylum.