These were two of the motions put forward by Robert Jenrick and Sir Bill Cash to toughen up the scheme.
The rebels have a fair case that the Government’s previous attempts to thread the needle on deportations have failed, and may fail again. But that doesn’t mean their amendments would get planes in the air.
The Prime Minister looked pained, as well he might, by the many impossible questions put to him by the Liaison Committee.
Killing the Bill at Second Reading would have meant no opportunity for emergency press conferences and Star Chamber findings at Committee and Report.
The Prime Minister looked relieved to have appointed a Home Secretary who is not furious with him.
Rishi Sunak must appear reasonable enough to those MPs who are worried about our international obligations, and impatient enough to those who worry he is not sufficiently serious about tackling small boats.
Both the referendum and our eventual departure from the EU were delivered only with decades of legislative trench warfare in the House of Commons.
“In these historic days, as we regain our freedom and our independence, I pay a profound tribute… above all to our Prime Minister.”
Or so it really seems – which is a personal coup for Johnson. Churchill walked with destiny. Today, the Prime Minister, in his serio-comic way, is winking at it.
Before any deals are signed, MPs should get to vote on them – as will be the case with the other parties.
The Government seems to be gearing up for a big fight over human rights laws in the wake of the Streatham terror attack.
We now have the most amazing opportunity to deliver an emphatic victory over Corbyn’s extremists – and achieve Brexit into the bargain.
The new Prime Minister will inherit the worst political legacy in living memory – with the very barest of working majorities.
So I took myself off to Lords with Crispin Blunt, Lord Haselhurst, and Tracey Crouch for some serious cricket.
It is a party with no prospect of any majority in the House of Commons, which cannot and will not change a word of legislation – and will put in grave peril the real progress we have made since 2019.