Rishi Sunak will hold a press conference this morning after seeing off a rightwing rebellion on his Rwanda plan.

       The prime minister is expected to give an update on the government’s immigration policies and take questions from the media.

       It comes after his controversial deportation bill was passed in the Commons by 320 votes to 276 late on Wednesday night, giving the government a majority of 44.

       The PM’s leadership risked being thrown into question after Tory rebels threatened to bring his Rwanda bill down, but the mutiny failed to materialise after an 11th-hour meeting in parliament ahead of the crunch vote.

       In the end, only 11 Tory MPs voted against the bill including Suella Braverman, Sir Simon Clarke, Mark Francois and Robert Jenrick.

       Despite winning the vote, the PM still faces a lengthy battle in the House of Lords as the government refused to say when flights to the African country might finally take off.

       Meanwhile, reports say “multiple” MPs unhappy about how the vote was handled in the Commons have submitted letters of no confidence in the PM.