Rishi Sunak is under increasing pressure to toughen up his Rwanda bill as the Conservative Party’s deputy chairman threatened to quit and Kemi Badenoch privately warned that it did not go far enough.
Lee Anderson has told government whips that he will vote for a series of rebel amendments along with nearly 60 fellow right-wing Tory MPs when the bill returns to the Commons on Tuesday.
• Rwanda bill latest: Rishi Sunak faces toughest test of his premiership
The Times also understands that Badenoch, the business secretary, urged the prime minister to harden up the legislation by stopping migrants lodging individual appeals against their deportation. She met Liam Booth-Smith, Sunak’s chief of staff, in No 10 last month to warn of the political consequences of
