PM faces pressure over Rwanda bill

RISHI Sunak has said he is talking to Tory MPs as he faces growing pressure from right-wingers to toughen up his Safety of Rwanda Bill, after it emerged that deputy chairman Lee Anderson is considering joining a possible rebellion.

Tory rebel sources said Mr Anderson had told colleagues he intends to defy the Government as Conservative Party divisions are set to be dragged back into the open in crunch votes this week.

Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch, who is popular among the Tory grassroots, is also understood to have called for asylum seekers to be prevented from lodging individual legal appeals against their removals to Kigali. As first reported by The Times, she warned Liam Booth-Smith, the Prime Minister's chief of staff, of the consequences of failing to block individual legal challenges last month.