A former Lord Chief Justice has lashed out after Rishi Sunak caved in to right-wing Tory rebels demands to ignore human rights court rulings.
The Government is poised to amend its controversial Illegal Migration Bill to ensure that injunctions by the European Court of Human Rights can be disregarded.
This would remove a key obstacle preventing people being deported, but the proposal would set an "extraordinarily bad example", ministers were warned.
