Yahoo Movies Government dealt string of defeats on post-Brexit immigration bill in Lords
Peers have backed a call for unaccompanied child refugees to be reunited with close relatives in the UK as they inflicted a series of defeats on Boris Johnson's flagship post-Brexit immigration bill.
The Lords overwhelmingly supported an amendment by Lord Dubs, who himself fled the Nazis as a child, to restore potections after the EU transition period ends later this year.
Before the vote Lord Dubs has asked: “Surely it is right that when there are young people who have got relatives here that family reunion must be a basic, basic thing that we should support?"
The vote was one of a number of defeats home secretary Priti Patel suffered as peers considered the legislation in the Lords, just hours after she pledged to ‘fix’ what she said was a broken asylum system.
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