Tory minister Robert Jenrick has faced fierce criticism from his own party’s backbenchers over immigration enforcement.
As opposition MPs lined up to denounce the Illegal Migration Bill on Tuesday, Conservative politicians also grilled the immigration minister on when government agencies were going to “get a grip” on rising illegal immigrant cases.
Jenrick was in the Commons just hours after the publication of the Home Office’s long-awaited economic impact assessment on the contentious legislation.
The bill, currently making its way through Parliament, aims to prevent people from claiming asylum in the UK if they arrive through unauthorised means.
The government also hopes the changes will ensure detained people are promptly removed, either to their home country or a third country….