Centrist Tories want PM to stick by UK’s human rights obligations while those on the right want new bill to override them
Tory MPs are at loggerheads as competing factions engage in last-minute lobbying efforts to try to change Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda legislation before it is published in the coming days.
The prime minister is due to announce a major new bill as soon as this week, which Downing Street says will deal with concerns raised last month by the supreme court over the government’s scheme to send asylum seekers to east Africa. It follows the new treaty signed on Tuesday by the home secretary, James Cleverly, in the capital Kigali.
