'No more delays ...we will sit there are vote until it's done

RISHI Sunak warned yesterday he will force meddling Lords to sit all night to get his flagship Rwanda Bill finally through Parliament.

- Michael Knowles

The Prime Minister admitted repeated delays in the bid to fly illegal migrants to Kigali had made everyone's patience "run thin". He voiced his frustrations as his Rwanda Bill returns to the House of Commons on Monday for a fourth round of "Parliamentary ping-pong".

The PM also told of his anger over Labour's repeated refusal to allow the Bill to clear the House of Lords.

In the latest sign the timeline is slipping yet again, No10 refused to commit to the first Rwanda flight taking off this spring.

Mr Sunak said yesterday: "The very simple thing here is that repeatedly everyone has tried to block us from getting this Bill through. Yet again, you saw it this week Labour peers blocking us again.

"That's enormously frustrating. Everyone's patience with this has run thin - mine certainly has.

"So our intention now is to get this done on Monday. No more prevarication. No more delay.

"We are going to get this done on Monday and we will sit there and vote until it is done." The PM added: "You've got a Conservative Government doing absolutely everything it can to pass the Bill so after that we can, as soon as practically possible, get flights to Rwanda and build that deterrent so that we can stop the boats.

"And you've got the Labour Party that is doing absolutely everything it can to delay and frustrate us in that aim.