Is Sunak any closer to implementing his Rwanda plan?

When the Lib Dem peer Brian Paddick complained on social media last month that the House of Lords was keeping punishing hours, it is fair to say the plight of peers was not greeted with universal sympathy.

Lord Paddick, the Lib Dem spokesman on home affairs in the upper house, had the battle around the Illegal Migration Bill in mind when he complained: ‘Last night I got home from @UKHouseofLords four hours earlier than the night before…10.30 p.m. instead of 2.30 a.m…I’m 65, many colleagues are older. This is unsustainable. So tired.’

‘Oh, poor lamb,’ was one of the milder responses he received from the taxpaying public, many of whom cited the attendance allowance of more than £300 per day in the Lords.

In the end Paddick was proven correct. It was indeed a remorseless diet of late votes that played a crucial role in persuading peers that they could not sustain their ‘ping pong’ with the Commons over the migrant legislation any longer.