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By Ashley Cowburn Rishi Sunak has suffered a major blow as peers inflicted the first defeat against his flagship Rwanda deportation plan. Peers voted by 214 to 171 to delay ratifying a treaty with the east African nation – a key plank of the PM’s controversial policy. It came after the Labour peer Lord Goldsmith proposed a motion recommending that Parliament should not ratify the treaty until ministers can show the country is safe. The Government agreed the legally-binding treaty in December, saying it addressed concerns raised by the Supreme Court about the possibility of asylum seekers depor…

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