The Latest Breaking News from Robert Jenrick

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Richard Drax - who said opponents are considering legal action against the Home Office plans - claims he wasn't consulted before Home Secretary Suella Braverman told him of the plan to house more than 500 asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset

In a bruising encounter in the Commons, 'Tory Gandalf' Sir Geoffrey Cox demanded to know why ignoring orders from the European Court of Human Rights was needed amid concerns over the power it would give Suella Braverman

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Home secretary also associates people who enter UK illegally with ‘heightened levels of criminality’

Theresa May had warned bill will cause more people to be consigned to modern slavery while Geoffrey Cox also raised concerns

Comments by immigration minister criticised as being ‘straight from the far right’s playbook’

Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said that he expects the number of people fleeing Sudan arriving in the UK by small boat to rise, but said the Government had no immediate plans for a Ukraine-style refugee scheme

The immigration minister insisted the legislation ‘does not turn our back on those in genuine need’.