Tuesday briefing: Rishi Sunak finally passes his Rwanda bill – now to find out if it works | Rwanda

Good morning. After two years, three prime ministers, four (or five) home secretaries, one cancelled flight and about 75,000 more people crossing the Channel in small boats, the government finally passed its Safety of Rwanda bill late last night. Anyone reaching for a symbol of how dismal the whole process has been might have found it at 9.39pm, when a power cut plunged the House of Lords into darkness. Maybe Rishi Sunak took out his frustrations with peers on the fuse box.

The endless Westminster fight over the policy has somewhat obscured the more fundamental questions of whether it will…