Ministers have agreed to back two amendments to its flagship Illegal Migration Bill as part of No. 10’s attempt to ward off the latest Tory rebellion. The first is an agreement to change the law so that judges can no longer block migrant deportations. An amendment will give the Home Secretary the power to ‘disregard’ interim ‘Rule 39’ orders from the European Court of Human Rights – the so-called ‘pyjama injunctions’ suspended the first scheduled Rwanda deportation flight last June late at night.
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