Rishi Sunak appears set to be rocked by the resignation of his immigration minister after rejecting demands to opt out of European human rights laws to revive the Rwanda policy.
Robert Jenrick was said to have quit by one of his Home Office colleagues after the Prime Minister shunned taking the more hardline option with his new emergency legislation.
Mr Jenrick and his team are yet to comment, but the Conservative MP was conspicuously absent from Home Secretary James Cleverly’s statement to the Commons about the new draft legislation.
Home Office minister Laura Farris has told LBC: “I understand that he has (gone).”
Asked why, she said: “I don’t know in all honesty. I just came from the chamber and found out after I connected to your show.”