Some Tory MPs said to want concession as Home Office staff warn migrants marked for deportation will go ‘underground’
Conservative MPs and oppositions parties want assurances that Afghans who served alongside UK forces would not be flown to Rwanda if they arrived in the UK across the Channel.Conservative MPs and oppositions parties want assurances that Afghans who served alongside UK forces would not be flown to Rwanda if they arrived in the UK across the Channel.
Charities believe the move could plunge asylum seekers into a “serious safeguarding crisis”. Many could be vulnerable to exploitation, with some retreating back into the hands of trafficking gangs, as they seek to avoid statutory services and local authorities. Lord Browne, who was defence secretary from 2006 to 2008, said: “I can barely walk five yards in the Houses of Parliament without some Conservatives stopping me in a corridor and saying they wish the government would budge on this issue.
The former justice secretary Robert Buckland, the only Tory MP to vote against the government on the Afghan amendment, suggested the bill would finally make it through parliament if ministers were willing to compromise.
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