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Hello and welcome to Coffee Have Shots. I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by

Kid's Walls and Spectator and Steven Bush the Financial Times.

Now last night saw 18 divisions on amendments from the House of Lords on the Legal Migration

Bill. That's the most number of divisions in this Parliament back to back.

Katie took us through what we saw last night and where we go from here on this bill.

Yes, I think there's a lot of MPs this morning looking quite tired after what was this mammoth

session but ultimately the whips were pretty happy about when because they managed to defeat

everything on the amendments that they hadn't already made a plan to come to an agreement and

accept it. Now a handful of amendments the government actually gave way on ahead of the vote

such as reducing the number of time a pregnant woman would be held in detention as part of the

process but when it comes to some of the amendments they chose not to offer concessions on.

So they did offer some concessions but they weren't enough to win the backing of some

Tory MPs so the remaining I think were the stickiest issues if you look at some of these votes

and James she had a very good blog on coffee has on this relates to unaccompanied children

also the victims of modern slavery so you sold the government side to effectively face down

Theresa May who has been on a campaign to try and protect modern slavery which she sees as a legacy

from her time as Prime Minister and something she did with her aide Fiona Hill and she spoke in

the chamber saying I know that Ministers have said this bill will enable more perpetrators to be

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