A union representing Home Office workers has threatened to strike over the government’s plan to send illegal immigrants to Rwanda.
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has already been involved in a legal challenge against the policy.
The union’s head of bargaining Paul O’Connor said some civil servants fear they would be forced to carry out a policy that may be proved unlawful, and that the union won’t rule anything out in terms of its responses.
The threat has triggered a furious backlash from senior conservative politicians, with former minister Jacob Rees-Mogg saying whoever strikes over the policy should quit or be fired….