Politics latest: Rwanda bill delayed after government suffers surprise defeats - as Tory peer calls for election 'sooner rather than later'

We heard from Tory MP Rehman Chishti shortly after the House of Lords passed amendments to the Rwanda bill once again, sending it back to the Commons.Our political editor Beth Rigby put to him that the government could have forced MPs to stay in the Commons and vote down the Lords' amendments tonight or tomorrow, but has chosen not to do so.He replied: 'I want to get Rwanda done. And I think Conservative MPs across the board want to see this done.

'He went on: 'I think the programme motion could easily have ensured that we had a vote tomorrow because, at the end of the day, the public want us to get on and get it done.'Beth put to Mr Chishti that Rishi Sunak said back in November that the Rwanda legislation was an 'emergency', and so pushed him on why the government is not recalling MPs.He replied that it may be because the PM is allowing peers the time to consider it, rather than be seen to be rushing it.

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