Rishi Sunak has just hours to save his Rwanda plan and shore up his authority
Tory Rightwingers stepped up calls for Rishi Sunak to toughen up his flagship Rwanda immigration plan as the clock ticks towards a crunch Commons vote on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister had warned that further sidelining human rights laws, as being demanded by hardliners, risk scuppering the whole policy as Rwanda could pull out, but dozens of Tory Rightwingers were still refusing to budge.
The Prime Minister was meeting some of the hardliners for breakfast in Downing Street to try to persuade them to fall in line behind his controversial immigration policy.
If he fails to do so it will be a major blow to his authority as PM.
Mr Sunak on Monday night gained the backing of the One Nation group of moderate Tory MPs to support the Rwanda Bill at its Second
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