Sunak rejects Tory calls to ignore human rights court rulings over Rwanda deportations

Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London in September protest against the deporting of refugees to Rwanda. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Rishi Sunak has rejected calls by dozens of Conservative MPs to toughen up his asylum plans further by ignoring rulings from the European court of human rights over the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda.

The prime minister sidestepped questions in the Commons over whether he would be willing to withdraw from the European convention on human rights, saying he was delivering legislation allowing people who had arrived illegally to be removed from the UK.