Brexit bill passes Lords but Tories clash in final debate: We lost all our friends, roughed up!

Peers have approved Boris Johnson's Brexit bill, but not before making changes to the legislation.

The House of Lords voted in favour of five amendments over two days of debate, leading the new government to its first parliamentary defeats.

The changes included backing the Dubs amendment to protect the rights of refugee children after Brexit.

Tory peer Lord Hamilton said there had been "a conspiracy... of Remainers" throughout Parliament "trying to ensure we stay in the EU".

He accused colleagues of planning to "make negotiations [with the EU] as difficult as possible for the government so they get a very bad deal, and they can then be justified in their view we should never have left".

His fellow Conservative, Lord Cormack, said the comments equated to "the most ill-judged speech I have heard for many long years".

He added: "The will of the people must, of course, prevail. But to pretend this House has behaved improperly is wrong.

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