The resignation of Robert Jenrick over Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill is “deeply worrying”, Conservative MPs have warned amid concerns about the direction and stability of the Government.

Mr Jenrick, who was the immigration minister, quit yesterday as he warned that emergency legislation unveiled hours before his exit to secure asylum deportation flights represented a “triumph of hope over experience”.

Sir Simon Clarke, a former cabinet minister, wrote on Twitter last night: “Very sorry – and concerned – to see Rob Jenrick leave government this evening.

“He understands totally the strength of public feeling on this issue. [The question] now is simply will this legislation work.”

Yesterday, Mark Francois, the chairman of the European Research Group (ERG) which is made up of Brexiteer MPs on the right of the Conservative Party, told the Commons: “If the immigration minister, who is a good man, has resigned over this bill that is deeply worrying.”

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