Matt Dathan

Rishi Sunak rejected Home Office proposals to deport migrants to the Falkland Islands as a back-up to the Rwanda policy, The Times can reveal.

A government source said the department conducted “extensive work” this year on using the British overseas territory as part of contingency planning.

Using the Falklands, which are some 8,000 miles from Britain in the...

When the Supreme Court’s judgment on the government’s Rwanda migration scheme was revealed at 10am on Wednesday morning, the reaction in Downing Street was one of fury.

The ruling was in line with the worst-case scenario envisaged by Rishi Sunak’s government. In the space of 56 pages the court comprehensively destroyed the plans, highlighting fundamental...

Border Force officers are braced for a surge in migrants crossing the Channel as Rishi Sunak faces criticism from right-wing Tories over his “weak” plans to get the Rwanda scheme back on track.

Dozens of Tory MPs have signed a letter urging the prime minister to adopt a radical plan that would bar migrants from using human rights laws to block their...

Ministers can give “no guarantee” that deportation flights to Rwanda will take off before the next election, Jeremy Hunt admitted as the government prepared for a constitutional showdown over the policy.

A new treaty with Rwanda is expected to be published on Monday and emergency legislation to block legal challenges is set to be introduced the week after.

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Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, articulated what ministers privately acknowledge but will not publicly admit: that in the light of Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling there was now “no guarantee” that deportation flights would take off for Rwanda before the next general election.

What is the government’s plan to fulfil the central part of Rishi Sunak’s “stop the...

Rishi Sunak has told European judges that he will do “whatever is necessary” to get flights to Rwanda off the ground by the next election after he lost a critical legal battle over the government’s migration policy.

The prime minister insisted he would “not allow a foreign court to block these flights” as he left the door open to leaving the European...

Rishi Sunak has warned European judges that he will do “whatever is necessary” to get flights to Rwanda off the ground by the next election, after he lost a critical legal battle over the government’s flagship migration policy.

The prime minister insisted he would “not allow a foreign court to block these flights” as he said he would revisit Britain’s...

The Supreme Court’s ruling appeared so damning that it raised serious questions over whether the UK’s deal with Rwanda has any future whatsoever. Why then, did Rishi Sunak come out fighting by revealing plans are already under way to elevate the Rwanda deal to a treaty and emergency legislation to prevent migrants appealing against their deportation to the...

Rishi Sunak will press ahead with plans to send migrants to Rwanda regardless of the outcome of a ruling by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

The UK’s most senior court will decide the fate of the Rwanda scheme by ruling whether the government’s policy to deport migrants to Rwanda is lawful. The verdict will prove critical for Rishi Sunak’s flagship pledge to...

Rishi Sunak appointed the former prime minister in a reshuffle of his top team after sacking Suella Braverman as home secretary.

James Cleverly, the former foreign secretary, replaces Braverman with Cameron coming back to government to take the vacant role at the Foreign Office. Cameron is being given a peerage to take up...

Suella Braverman has warned she will have “more to say” about her sacking as the Conservative right jumped to her defence.

Braverman was replaced as home secretary by James Cleverly, the former foreign secretary, after a number of controversial interventions that piled pressure on Rishi Sunak to let her go.

A No 10 source said the prime minister “asked Suella...

Tory MPs have accused Suella Braverman of inciting violence on Armistice Day as Grant Shapps became the latest Cabinet minister to distance himself from the home secretary.

Rishi Sunak is weighing up when and whether to sack , with officials making preparations for reshuffle some expect to be imminent after a week of clashes between the home office...

At least two senior Tory MPs have threatened to quit their roles in government if Suella Braverman is sacked, as sources say Rishi Sunak’s patience with the home secretary has “run out”.

Supporters of the home secretary launched a rearguard action to shore up her position after Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, became the most senior minister to distance himself...

For Suella Braverman it is familiar territory. She may only have been home secretary for just over a year but in that time she has already been sacked once and found herself on the verge of being sacked again on repeated occasions.

As Sunak considers wielding the knife this weekend, is said to be sanguine. She spent Friday preparing for two pivotal...

Jeremy Hunt has become the most senior minister to publicly distance himself from Suella Braverman.

The future hangs in the balance after she defied No 10’s instructions to tone down the article that compared Saturday’s pro-Palestinian Armistice Day rally to sectarian marches held in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

The chancellor told...

Rishi Sunak once again finds himself having to investigate the conduct of Suella Braverman amid growing signs that his patience with his home secretary is wearing thin.

It was only a few months ago that he rebuked over her handling of a speeding fine after launching an inquiry into whether she broke the ministerial code. Yesterday the prime...

When The Times published a piece by the home secretary on Wednesday night, the Tory WhatsApp groups went into overdrive. Even by the standard of Suella Braverman’s recent interventions, her article on the policing of pro-Palestinian rallies on Armistice Day was incendiary.

In the space of just 700 words, the home secretary accused the police of “playing...

Suella Braverman has accused the Metropolitan Police of “playing favourites” with protesters as she clashed with Britain’s most senior officer over his decision to give the go-ahead to Saturday’s pro-Palestinian march.

In , the home secretary also risks inflaming tensions further by claiming that the weekly pro-Palestininan protests...

The Metropolitan Police will be held “accountable” for pro-Palestinian marches on Armistice Day after the force refused to ban them, Rishi Sunak has said.

The prime minister said the decision had been made by Sir Mark Rowley, the Met commissioner. “He has said that he can ensure that we safeguard Remembrance for the country this weekend as well as keep the...

Keyless car hacking equipment that has driven a rise in vehicle theft will be among devices to be banned under anticrime legislation in the King’s Speech.

About 60 per cent of vehicle-related theft involves electronic equipment, including signal amplifiers and relay devices, which are used to override the automatic locking system and break into cars.

The...