British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces a crunch vote on his troubled Rwanda Bill after two Tory deputy chairmen resigned to join the biggest Conservative rebellion of his leadership.
The PM is battling to see off another major revolt as MPs decide whether to back the legislation aimed at saving the government's flagship asylum policy.
Some 60 Conservatives backed changes to the Safety of Rwanda Bill put forward by Tory veteran Bill Cash, in a sign of the scale of unease within the party during an election year.
MPs voted 569 to 68 to reject the amendment, which aimed to ensure UK and international law cannot be used to prevent or delay a person being removed to Rwanda.
But the scope of the revolt would be more than enough to sink the legislation and overturn the government's working majority if it were repeated at the bill's final Commons hurdle expected today.
However, no Conservatives voted against the Bill at the second reading - despite similar warnings from the right of the party which had appeared to put its fate in jeopardy beforehand.
Mr Sunak faces a grilling during Prime Minister's Questions before the crucial third reading.
It comes after senior MPs Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resigned from their party positions to back changes tabled by Mr Cash and former immigration minister Robert Jenrick.
Jane Stevenson also quit her role as a parliamentary private secretary in the Department for Business and Trade to support the amendments, which MPs on the Tory right say will help protect the Rwanda plan from further legal challenge.
Former prime minister Liz Truss, former ministers Suella Braverman and Sir Simon Clarke and former leader Iain Duncan Smith were also among those to back the amendments.
Under the UK government's plan, migrants who cross the English Channel on small boats could be sent on a one-way trip to Rwanda rather than being allowed to try to seek asylum in the UK.
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