Tory MPs demand to see legal advice on Sunak's migrants boats bill as rebellion threat grows

Conservative MPs are demanding to see the legal advice for Rishi Sunak’s controversial Channel asylum laws as the threat of rebellion grows

as it would bolster their calls to derogate from European Convention on Human Rights , believing it is the only way to make the plan work.

Some insiders believe the former prime minister could make an explosive intervention by backing an amendment to the Bill on modern slavery, but allies of Mrs May said she would not make up her mind until any plan to change the legislation was put in front of her. “I and a number of others have said the Conservative Government, or any government, shouldn’t be breaking international law.

“Under the current Bill if they came to the UK via a newly defined illegal route would not be able to seek refuge, leaving them at the mercy of criminal gangs,” he said.

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