Rishi Sunak was urged on Monday by a senior Tory to amend his flagship immigration bill to make it “humane” as well as “tough” by opening up safe and legal asylum routes at the same time as clamping down on the flow of small boats across the Channel.
Simon Hoare MP, chairman of the Commons Northern Ireland Committee, is planning to table an amendment to the deeply controversial legislation so these routes would be created “in tandem” with the other measures in the Illegal Immigration Bill.
