Rwanda bill – newest: Rishi Sunak pushes Tory MPs to back ‘stop the boats’ plan ahead of crunch vote

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Rishi Sunak is staging a final-ditch bid to win over proper-wing Conservatives MPs threatening to defeat his Rwanda deportation laws.

The PM faces a mounting insurrection over the flagship immigration coverage, with Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith poised to back insurgent amendments to the bill.

Mr Anderson and Mr Clarke-Smith mentioned they might defy the Government by becoming a member of greater than 60 Tory MPs who’re in search of to disapply worldwide legislation from the Bill and curtail asylum seekers’ rights to attraction in opposition to flights to Kigali.

But any try by Mr Sunak to placate them can be opposed by extra average Tories, who’re eager to defend the laws in opposition to breaches of worldwide legislation.

It comes as the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has concluded after a authorized evaluation of the UK authorities’s new Rwanda bill that it’s not suitable with worldwide legislation.

The UNHCR mentioned the modified Rwanda scheme “does not meet the required standards relating to the legality and appropriateness of the transfer of asylum seekers and is not compatible with international refugee law”.