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Robert Jenrick’s resignation letter in full as immigration minister quits over Rwanda plan

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Robert Jenrick’s shock resignation has plunged Rishi Sunak’s leadership into further chaos after the prime minister failed to appease Tory right-wingers with his emergency Rwanda legislation.

Home Secretary James Cleverly unveiled a bill in the Commons to “disapply” the UK Human Rights Act in a bid to stop British judges blocking the deportation of asylum seekers.

But the Sunak government could not head off a major revolt by the right of the party after choosing not to opt out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Jenrick said the small boats crisis was doing “untold damage” to the country and

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