REBELS FIRE WARNING SHOT AT PM OVER RWANDA BILL

RISHI Sunak will face a showdown with Tory rebels after they issued a series of demands to toughen up new Rwanda deportation laws.

- Sam Lister

 

Former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick warned the Prime Minister that the "stakes could not be higher" as he set out plans to change legislation in a series of crunch votes next week.

Mr Jenrick's strategy would neuter the power of Europe's human rights court to block illegal migrants from being sent to the East African nation.

Former Tory Party leader Sir Iain Duncan-Smith, exHome Secretary Suella Braverman, and senior Conservative Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg are among around 30 MPs backing his reforms.

Mr Jenrick, who resigned in protest over the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, said: "If we don't fix this Bill the country will be consigned to more illegal crossings, more farcical hotels and billions more wasted taxpayers' money in the years to come. The Bill as drafted simply will not work because it doesn't end the merry-go-round of legal challenges that frustrate removals.

"I've seen the legal advice and operational plans where this was painfully apparent. That's why I've tabled amendments that block small boat arrivals making individual claims and prevent pyjama judgments from Strasbourg grounding removals.