Rishi Sunak's Rwanda bill will finally become law after a parliamentary showdown ended late in the night. Plans to send some asylum seekers to Africa have met with fierce criticism, but the bill passed on Monday when the Lords dropped their opposition.

The deaths of five migrants while trying to reach the UK in a small boat underscores why the Rwanda scheme is needed, Rishi Sunak has said. French officials said that three men, a woman and a seven-year-old girl died after an unprecedented number of migrants were crammed into a dinghy whose engine stopped working after it collided with a sand bank shortly after leaving a beach in northern France.