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On 16 and 17 January, the Tories could lose Commons votes on their Bill trying to save their “send them to Rwanda” asylum policy. Even if they win, they have a battle to work the bIll, which tries to instruct courts Rwanda must be reckoned safe even if it is not.
Civil servants could be given new guidance forcing them to ignore rulings from the European Court of Human Rights blocking flights to Rwanda.
Securing our borders is a fundamental responsibility of any government. On a purely practical basis, properly enforced borders keep us all safe. On a theoretical level, a state cannot be a sovereign if it loses the power to determine who enters and leaves its territory.
Lee Anderson is preparing to back the Tory rebel amendments to the Rwanda Bill as the number of backbench MPs urging Rishi Sunak to toughen the legislation approaches 60.
In recent years, the Home Office has presided over record numbers of people entering Britain legally and illegally. The department that governs our borders has manifestly struggled to do so; to understand why, The Telegraph has spoken to a series of insiders who described an organisation rife with chaos, dysfunction and wokery.