Rishi Sunak will face the nation in a press conference today, as fury grows over the Government’s failure to tackle migration.
He will address the public from Downing Street at 11am.
This comes less than 24 hours after the shock resignation of his Immigration Minister, Robert Jenrick, who stepped down last night.
In his resignation statement, Jenrick said he “cannot continue” in his post given he has “such strong disagreements with the direction of the Government’s policy on immigration”.
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He continued: “The Government has a responsibility to place our vital national interests above highly contested interpretations of international law.
“In our discussions on the proposed emergency legislation you have moved towards my position, for which I am grateful. Nevertheless, I am unable to take the currently proposed legislation through the Commons as I do not believe it provides us with the best possible chance of success. A Bill of the kind you are proposing is a triumph of hope over experience.
“The stakes for the country are too high for us not to pursue the stronger protections required to end the merry-go-round of legal challenges which risk paralysing the scheme and negating its intended deterrent.”
Jenrick warned: “I refuse to be yet another politician who makes promises on immigration to the British public but does not keep them.”
His resignation came just minutes after the Government published legislation to address the concerns of the Supreme Court when they ruled that the Rwanda Plan is illegal.
The new Bill says the UK parliament “is sovereign”, noting that “the validity of an Act is unaffected by international law” – noting that the European Convention on Human Rights and other international law would be disapplied.
But a source close to former Home Secretary Suella Braverman warned that the legislation will allow “every single illegal migrant to make individual human rights claims”, saying it is a “further betrayal of Tory voters”.
The source said: “This bill doesn’t come close to meeting Suella’s tests.
“The PM has kept the ability for every single illegal migrant to make individual human rights claims against their removal and to then appeal those claims if they don’t succeed. It is fatally flawed.
“It will be bogged down in the courts for months…. It won’t stop the boats.
“It is a further betrayal of Tory voters and the decent patriotic majority who want to see this insanity brought to an end.”
