Senior Tory MPs rebel on Illegal Migration Bill votes as further concessions urged
Ministers are facing calls to make further concessions to their sweeping asylum reforms, after senior Tory MPs joined a small backbench rebellion amid a parliamentary tussle over the Illegal Migration Bill. Senior Tories used Tuesday’s debate to call for further reforms, as MPs spent more than three-and-a-half hours holding 18 votes in the Commons that saw several amendments made by the House of Lords overturned. The Illegal Migration Bill was mauled by peers, who inflicted 20 defeats on the GovernmentRead More