Major Tory uprising against Sunak over Rwanda bill

Rishi Sunak is having a big problem with some members of his political party because they don’t like his idea to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.

More than 30 members of the party’s less influential members support making it more difficult for people to appeal deportation by changing the bill next week.

The changes show how divided the Tory party is on the policy, which the Prime Minister thinks is very important.

Ministers say that only a very small number of appeals are allowed in the bill.

Some people who support the changes are former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and a few former cabinet ministers, including former home secretary Suella Braverman.

Former immigration minister Robert Jenrick, who quit because of the proposed law last month and is a leading rebel, said the new law would not stop people from challenging immigration decisions over and over again.

Last month, the government made a new law because the Supreme Court said their plan to send asylum seekers to East Africa was not allowed.

The law wants to say that it’s okay to send refugees to Rwanda from the UK. This would stop flights from being stopped because of legal reasons.

Government officials may not have to follow urgent rules from the European Court of Human Rights to stop a flight to Rwanda while a person’s legal case is being decided.

However, the rebels believe that the policy can still be stopped by many people appealing against it, and they want to make the circumstances for allowing appeals stricter.

They also want to make it the usual thing for ministers to ignore orders from the ECHR that stop flights.

‘Be the one who gets the last word in the discussion’

The changes probably won’t pass on Tuesday because they won’t get enough support from Labour MPs to beat the government’s majority.

But, if the rebels vote against the government’s bill later on and it stays the same, the bill could be in danger.

A group of 29 MPs could be powerful enough to change Mr Sunak’s 56-seat majority if they vote with Labour, who doesn’t agree with the Rwanda policy.

Mr Jenrick said on BBC Radio 4’s Today show that he might vote against the entire bill if their suggested changes don’t work.

But he said he was not thinking about that yet, and the rebels wanted to win the argument.

One Nation stress

Government might give in to the rebels to get them to agree, but experts think this probably won’t happen until the bill is almost finished in Parliament.

The government is feeling pressure from some members of the Conservative Party who believe that the bill can’t be made stricter without breaking international law.

Mr Jenrick said the current bill would not work because it does not stop people from coming to the UK to ask for asylum.

He said that people should only be able to appeal to not be sent out of the country in a few special situations, like if a woman is having a baby or if someone can’t travel on a plane.

“If we don’t change this law, there will be more people crossing the border illegally, more poorly run hotels for migrants, and we will waste billions of taxpayer dollars in the future,” he said.

Downing Street said that the bill is the strongest law ever in Parliament and it shows that this Parliament, not any foreign court, has the most power.