RISHI: I GET IT! NOW BACK ME TO FINISH JOB

DEFIANT Rishi Sunak has vowed to "finish the job" of getting migrant deportation flights off to Rwanda and called for opponents within his own party to back him.

- Sam Lister, Martyn Brown

The Prime Minister is facing potential rebellions from both wings of the Conservatives, as centrists fear his new law has gone too far while the Right believes he has not been tough enough.

But Mr Sunak insisted his Bill would block "every single reason that has ever been used to prevent flights to the East African nation.

He declared yesterday: "We've got to finish the job and I'm going to see this thing through. I'm confident I can get this thing done."

The PM added: "We need to end the merry-go-round. So I'm also announcing today that we will take the extraordinary step of introducing emergency legislation. This will enable Parliament to confirm that with our new treaty, Rwanda is safe."

Mr Sunak held the last-minute press conference yesterday to reassert his authority.

Robert Jenrick had sent shockwaves through Westminster by quitting as immigration minister as the PM published plans to make Rwanda deportations viable after they were blocked by the Supreme Court.

Mr Jenrick claimed the legislation will fail as it does not go far enough a concern backed up by a number of Tory MPs on the Right.

But the Premier insisted that the difference between his position and that of party colleagues who want to set aside international agreements, such as the Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights, was minimal.

He said in No9 Downing Street: "For the people who say, 'You should do something different', the difference between them and me is an inch, given everything that we have closed. We're talking about an inch.