Rishi Sunak launched a personal attempt to avert a Conservative rebellion over his flagship Rwanda Bill as he met Tory migration hardliners for breakfast in 10 Downing Street this morning. 

More than a dozen Tory backbenchers, including deputy chairman of the Conservative Party Lee Anderson, entered No10 for talks with the Prime Minister ahead of a crunch vote in the House of Commons this evening. 

The Rwanda Bill would formally designate Rwanda as a safe country for asylum seekers and ministers hope it would pave the way for deportation flights to finally take off. 

But some Tory MPs believe the Bill does not go far enough and want the Government to toughen its approach. Some have called for the Bill to be pulled so that major changes can be made. 

The result of tonight’s vote - the first time MPs will have their say on the Bill - is hanging in the balance as it is currently unclear whether a majority of MPs will back it. 

Michael Tomlinson, the illegal migration minister, insisted this morning that the Government is “very much in listening mode” as it scrambles to defuse a potential Tory revolt. 

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