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A Government source warned: “If the Lords don’t want to face an overwhelming public call to be abolished, they must get on, protect democracy and pass this bill.”

Brexit Secretary David Davis called on the House of Lords to "do its job and to do its patriotic duty and actually give us the right to go on and negotiate that new relationship".

Despite the dire warnings, peers overwhelming voted to approve an ammendment to the Brexit bill to guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK.

After the bombshell vote defied the Government on Brexit, here is a look at when the Lords will next get the chance to vote on the Article 50 bill again.