MPs reject Tory MP Sir Bill Cash's amendment to Rwanda bill

       Dozens of Tory MPs have backed plans to make Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill more hardline. MPs voted 529 to 68, majority 461, to reject Conservative MP Sir Bill Cash’s amendment, which aimed to ensure UK and international law cannot be used to prevent or delay a person being removed to Rwanda.

       Two Tory deputy chairmen stepped down from their party positions after backing amendments that seek to beef up the legislation.

       Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith said that “whilst our main wish is to strengthen the legislation, this means that in order to vote for amendments we will therefore need to offer you our resignations from our rules”.

       In a joint letter, they said it was “important in terms of credibility that we are consistent” on arguing that safeguards must be put in place to ensure the Government’s flagship asylum policy is legally watertight.

       They told Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that their deputy chairmen roles meant there was an issue of being bound by collective responsibility.

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       “It is with this in mind that we fully appreciate that whilst our main wish is to strengthen the legislation, this means that in order to vote for amendments we will therefore need to offer you our resignations from our roles.”

       The MPs said they did not want to distract the Prime Minister from his “work on illegal migration”.

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       Jane Stevenson also voted for Sir Bill Cash’s amendment, quit as a PPS to Kemi Badenoch.

       She said: "I don't consider my votes to have been anti-Govt, but they do warrant resignation. In the Chamber earlier I paid tribute to Rishi Sunak's work so far & welcomed his commitment made in Rome in Dec to lead talks on the global frameworks."

       Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, Mark Francois and Jonathan Gullis also voted for the amendment.

       The 58 names of Conservative MPs supported who supported the amendment

       Tellers: Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset) & Miriam Cates (Penistone and Stocksbridge)

       Adam Afriyie (Windsor)

       Lee Anderson (Ashfield)

       Sarah Atherton (Wrexham)

       Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen)

       Bob Blackman (Harrow East)

       Ben Bradley (Mansfield)

       Suella Braverman (Fareham)

       Jack Brereton (Stoke-on-Trent South)

       Paul Bristow (Peterborough)

       William Cash (Stone)

       Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham)

       Christopher Chope (Christchurch)

       Simon Clarke (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)

       Brendan Clarke-Smith (Bassetlaw)

       Philip Davies (Shipley)

       Sarah Dines (Derbyshire Dales)

       Richard Drax (South Dorset)

       James Duddridge (Rochford and Southend East) (Proxy vote cast by Marcus Jones)

       Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green)

       Michael Fabricant (Lichfield)

       Nick Fletcher (Don Valley)

       Kevin Foster (Torbay)

       Mark Francois (Rayleigh and Wickford)

       Chris Green (Bolton West)

       James Grundy (Leigh)

       Jonathan Gullis (Stoke-on-Trent North)

       John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings)

       Darren Henry (Broxtowe)

       Philip Hollobone (Kettering)

       Adam Holloway (Gravesham)

       Eddie Hughes (Walsall North)

       Tom Hunt (Ipswich)

       Robert Jenrick (Newark)

       Caroline Johnson (Sleaford and North Hykeham)

       David Jones (Clwyd West)

       Danny Kruger (Devizes)

       Andrew Lewer (Northampton South)

       Marco Longhi (Dudley North)

       Jonathan Lord (Woking

       Craig Mackinlay (South Thanet) (Proxy vote cast by John Redwood)

       Karl McCartney (Lincoln)

       Robin Millar (Aberconwy)

       Anne Marie Morris (Newton Abbot)

       Jill Mortimer (Hartlepool)

       Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills)

       Lia Nici (Great Grimsby)

       Neil O’Brien (Harborough)

       Matthew Offord (Hendon)

       Tom Randall (Gedling)

       John Redwood (Wokingham)

       Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury)

       Gary Sambrook (Birmingham, Northfield)

       Greg Smith (Buckingham)

       Henry Smith (Crawley)

       Jane Stevenson (Wolverhampton North East)

       Desmond Swayne (New Forest West)

       Elizabeth Truss (South West Norfolk)

       Bill Wiggin (North Herefordshire

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