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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rajeev Syal and Diane Taylor

Tory rebels offered concessions on asylum legislation

Suella Braverman
The changes will mean that the duty on the home secretary to remove anyone who comes to the UK on a small boat will not apply retrospectively. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

Ministers have been forced to offer rebel Conservative MPs concessions on key asylum legislation amid growing concern that it would fail to pass through the Commons.

The government has dropped nearly all of the retrospective applications of the illegal migration bill’s measures – a move that will mean Suella Braverman will no longer be obliged to deport thousands of asylum seekers who arrive in the UK this summer to a third country such as Rwanda.

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