The Prime Minister will hope a Christmas truce holds between rival factions within his party, but both sides are braced for a showdown in the new year.
Emergency legislation declaring Rwanda a safe country seeks to prevent legal challenges halting flights to the East African nation.
Mr Sunak wants the first flights to arrive in Rwanda in the spring.
But a former Tory minister who opposes the Safety of Rwanda Bill predicted a "mighty tug of war between the moderates who seek to uphold international law and those on the Right intent on ignoring it".
They warned: "As things stand there is no common ground and the Lords will ensure this Bill is delayed for months." The former minister highlighted a worst-case scenario of "our party splintering into two".
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